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diff --git a/www/ap22-authnz-external/DESCR b/www/ap22-authnz-external/DESCR deleted file mode 100644 index 0a4e81c24c1..00000000000 --- a/www/ap22-authnz-external/DESCR +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -The Apache HTTP Daemon can be configured to require users to supply logins -and passwords before accessing pages in some directories. Authentication is -the process of checking if the password given is correct for a user. Apache -has standard modules for authenticating out of several different kinds of -databases. The external authentication module provides a flexible tool for -creating authentication systems based on other databases. - -The module can be used in either of two somewhat divergent ways: -1) External Authentication: - -When a user supplies a login and password, mod_auth*_external runs a program -you write, passing it the login and password. Your program does whatever -checking and logging it needs to, and then returns a Accept/Reject flag to -Apache. - -2) Hardcoded Authentication: - -Some hooks have been inserted into mod_auth*_external to make it easy to -replace the call to the external authentication program with a call to a -hardcoded internal authentication routine that you write. |