> From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:28 AM
> "John Locke" <mail@freelock.com> writes:
>
> > Ben Collins-Sussman said:
> >
> > > These other folks are talking about writing an authorization module --
> > > deciding who is allowed to read/write to specific areas of the
> > > repository.
> > >
> > > Can't apache already do LDAP authentication?
> > >
> > Sure it can... and authorization as you describe is exactly what I'm
> > after. I guess I wanted to make the suggestion that anybody coding an
> > authorization module allow for the use of any of the existing
> > authentication modules.
>
> If I understand apache correctly, it has a very clean separation
> between pluggable authn and authz modules. You can mix and match as
> you choose, for the most part.
>
> Apache folk: is my understanding correct?
For 2.1, yes. 2.0 still has got authn and authz intertwined mostly.
Shouldn't hold you back though.
Sander
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Received on Thu Jun 5 04:36:07 2003