I'm setting up a server which has to be able to communicate with other
servers in our network. In particular, it has to authenticate http users
against a MySql database. But the auth_mysql module, while available in
sarge, lenny, and sid, is not available in etch (and, this being a
production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a solution?

Thanks
Patrick

> * From: "Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>
> the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not available in etch
> (and, this being a production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a solution?

I have _not_ tried this, but etch has both libapache2-mod-auth-pam and
libpam-mysql which, when used together, should give this functionality.


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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:48 PM, NN_il_Confusionario <
pinkof.pallus@tiscalinet.it> wrote:

> > * From: "Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>
> > the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not
> available in etch
> > (and, this being a production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a
> solution?
>
> I have _not_ tried this, but etch has both libapache2-mod-auth-pam and
> libpam-mysql which, when used together, should give this functionality.


I looked into that, and, while it may provide the same functionality with a
lot of tweaking of my config and htaccess files, I decided to try compiling
the auth_mysql module. Following the instructions to do that at
http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/A...Authentication I was able to
get it (sort of) running. I also had to follow the advice at
http://www.pitr.net/index.php/2007/0...lename/because,
on first try, I was getting the error that provides a fix for. The
(sort of) remains, though, because I get an access denied error from the
MySQL server, but I'm pretty sure that's a local problem which I'm going to
have to get someone else to me fix. But I'm happy, at least, to have
auth_mysql functioning on an etch system. (I was a bit amazed to find that
it had been orphaned!)

Patrick