RE: Authentication/Authorization at DocRoot and below

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saad, Dan (N-Computer Sciences Corp) [mailto:dan.saad@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Authentication/Authorization at 
> DocRoot and below
> 
> Apache 1.3.37, auth_ldap v1.6.1, on Solaris 2.9 
> I currently authenticate the user at the top of my site. LDAP 
> non_authoritative - mod_auth authoritative so that during 
> authorization I can check membership in a series of groups 
> (ug01-ug05) prior to granting access. Membership in any of 
> the 5 groups results in access as it should.
> 
> So far so good ! 
> 
> Now - I have a page in a subdirectory that I want to deny 
> access to members of ug02. I then took myself out of all other
> 
> Groups but ug02 and in limiting access to the subdirectory I 
> changed my require group as follows: 
> 
> Require group ug01 ug02 ug03 ug04 ug05 
> To - 
> Require group ug01 ug03 ug04 ug05 
> 
> If I've put myself in ug02 and I'm requiring membership in 
> any 1 of the other groups - I should be getting denied but I'm not.

If I understand you correctly, it looks like you're trying to "nest"
authentication realms. This isn't supported by the Basic Authentication
mechanism. This is because the credentials are assigned to a single URL
and are inherited by all its sub-dirs.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. 

> 
> I did this not only in <Directory> and <Location> constructs 
> in the httpd.conf but also tried a .htaccess file. 
> 
> Should I not be able to authenticate at entry to the site and 
> then control access to various resources to certain groups as 
> I proceed down the tree ?
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.... 
> 
> Dan 
> 
>
 
 
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