On 1/24/07, Nestor Burma <goudron_et_plumes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
For small numbers of users, we could play with .htaccess in the associated private directories, and some DBM or database to store the users credentials. But would this scale for tens of thousands of users ? Is there some better solution than to manage one .htaccess file per private directory ?
If your concern is around the authentication backend and its performance, you should select something that allows for fast lookups. DBM applies this concept to file-based authentication schemes, but I don't know how it performs relative to this area. For authentication backends, LDAP supports very very quick read operations and as such would probably suffice for what you're after (plus for a user base that size, you'll likely settle on something like LDAP to manage them anyway.) DS --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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