RE: What server am I authenticating to?

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Yep. I found the issue in the apache config. 

Thanks,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Rixham [mailto:nrixham@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:12 PM
> To: Hansen, Mike
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  What server am I authenticating to?
> 
> Hansen, Mike wrote:
> >  
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: daniel.egeberg@xxxxxxxxx 
> >> [mailto:daniel.egeberg@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Egeberg
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:39 AM
> >> To: Hansen, Mike
> >> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re:  What server am I authenticating to?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 19:04, Hansen, Mike 
> >> <Mike.Hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> I took over maint of an app, and the former maintainer is 
> >> no longer available.
> >>> I was under the assumption that authentication was done 
> >> through an LDAP. How do I find out which LDAP server is 
> >> PHP/Apache using? It might be right in front of my face in 
> >> the apache config or php.ini, but I can't seem to find it. 
> >> I'm not sure what it'd be called in those config files. There 
> >> is no htaccess or htpasswd files that I could find on the 
> >> server. Below is the code that I believe does the authentication.
> >>> if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
> >>>                header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="***"');
> >>>                header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
> >>>                echo 'Access denied';
> >>>                exit;
> >>> }
> >>> else
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If anyone can point me right direction, that'd be great.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >> Basic HTTP authentication is not using LDAP. You can use 
> PHP_AUTH_USER
> >> and PHP_AUTH_PW to verify that the credentials are correct 
> (they'll be
> >> populated with whatever the user entered). Exactly how you 
> do that is
> >> up to you (hard code it, look in a database, LDAP, etc.). You then
> >> send the 401 response code along with WWW-Authenticate if the
> >> credentials aren't satisfactory.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Daniel Egeberg
> >>
> > 
> > I'll do some more digging. Would the LDAP authentication be 
> happening from apache or from within PHP? The user only sees 
> a username and password dialog. If they hit cancel, they get 
> the "Access denied" which I was assuming was from this bit of code.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> if it's ldap then most likely you should check the sites apache config
> file (apache-dir/sites-available) or .htaccess for something like..
> 
> <Location />
>         AuthType Basic
>         AuthName "***"
>         AuthBasicProvider ldap
> 

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