versions.
* Deleted 'GroupExternalAuthoritative' and 'AuthzExternalAuthoritative'
directives which are obsolete.
- * Deleted 'GroupExternalError' directive which is superceded by Apache's
+ * Deleted 'GroupExternalError' directive which is superseded by Apache's
'AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure' directive.
v3.2.6 (Jan Wolter - Oct 6, 2011)
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* Added GroupExternalError directive, which allows you to specify the
HTTP error code to be returned if the group access check fails.
- Defaut is 401, but you may want to return 403 if you want to show the
+ Default is 401, but you may want to return 403 if you want to show the
user an error page instead of asking him to login again. Thanks to
Peter Crawshaw <pcrawshaw@mta.ca> for this patch.
- * In hopes of getting to a more consistantly named set of directives,
+ * In hopes of getting to a more consistently named set of directives,
added new aliases for two old directives:
GroupExternalAuthoritative alias for AuthzExternalAuthoritative
GroupExternalManyAtOnce alias for AuthExternalGroupsAtOnce
on dynamically loaded modules see http://www.apache.org/docs/dso.html
Instructions for both options are given here. The dynamic loading
- option will probably be prefered on virtually all modern installations.
+ option will probably be preferred on virtually all modern installations.
* There is also documentation in the README file and in the AUTHENTICATORS
file. If you find this document unclear, reading those may help.
typically used as config file path. The ":" is required even if
the <data> is an empty string.
- In the old-style syntax, the path declaration should always preceed
+ In the old-style syntax, the path declaration should always preced
the method declaration, and the method declaration can be omitted if
you want the default.
- Apache complains about not recognizing mod_authnz_external commands
in the httpd.conf file like "DefineExternalAuth" and "AddExternalAuth".
- Either the module didn't get installed (if you staticly linked
+ Either the module didn't get installed (if you statically linked
the module, are you running the newly compiled copy of httpd?),
or it isn't enabled (if it is dynamically linked, the AddModule
LoadModule commands described above in step (1) may be missing,
socket connecting to the external authenticator, and only launch a new one
if the initial connection attempt fails. This would avoid launching a
new authenticator for each hit. Instead the authenticator would be a
- persistant process that can hold open a connection to the database and
+ persistent process that can hold open a connection to the database and
even do caching of recent authentications.
- Improve Windows support. Theoretically version 3.2.0 should work on
Both of the above modifications are inspired by patches made by Ken Lalonde
<ken at globalremit dot com>.
- * Included "http_request.h" header file to surpress a harmless compile-time
+ * Included "http_request.h" header file to suppress a harmless compile-time
warning.
v1.0.0 (Jan Wolter - Feb 19, 2006)
Pwauth is available from:
http://code.google.com/p/pwauth/
-It might also be possible to use this with mod_auth_shadow, expecially if a
+It might also be possible to use this with mod_auth_shadow, especially if a
authn/authz version of that is ever released.