Hi, for a secured webserver, I have the following setup/requirements a) HTTPS access only b) Clients need certificate c) for different parts of the site, I want to restrict access to certain certificates. a) and b) work great. c) works mostly. I am using the SSLOption "FakeBasicAuth" to extract the DN from the certificate and check them against a htpasswd file. This works as expected when one of the "valid-users" is trying to request the page. If one with a valid certificate, but nonmatching DN comes along he is not let in (GOOD !!), but gets the log in pop-up (BAD !!). In that case I would like to immediately send the "forbidden" response. Is than possible at all? My setup is RH9, Apache-2.0.54, mod_ssl from the 2.0.54 tarball. One example config is: <Location "/usage"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks SSLOptions +StrictRequire +FakeBasicAuth +OptRenegotiate SSLRequireSSL # # Virtual host does a "SSLVerifyClient optional", to allow # display of a Banner page to non-certificate users. # SSLRequire %{SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY} eq "SUCCESS" AuthName "Admin Users" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /xxx/admin.passwd require valid-user </Location> Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx