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diff --git a/docs/manual/howto/auth.html.en b/docs/manual/howto/auth.html.en index ceff2f56..29c38368 100644 --- a/docs/manual/howto/auth.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/howto/auth.html.en @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> -<title>Authentication and Authorization - Apache HTTP Server</title> +<title>Authentication and Authorization - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style/css/prettify.css" /> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ person in</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbmdbd">Alternate password storage</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#multprovider">Using multiple providers</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#beyond">Beyond just authorization</a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#socache">Authentication Cacheing</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#socache">Authentication Caching</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#moreinformation">More information</a></li> </ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ module from each group.</p> <p>In addition to these modules, there are also <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html">mod_authn_core</a></code> and - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html">mod_authz_core</a></code>. These module implement core + <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html">mod_authz_core</a></code>. These modules implement core directives that are core to all auth modules.</p> <p>The module <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html">mod_authnz_ldap</a></code> is both an @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ module from each group.</p> <p>This file should be placed somewhere not accessible from the web. This is so that folks cannot download the password file. For example, if your - documents are served out of <code>/usr/local/apache/htdocs</code> you + documents are served out of <code>/usr/local/apache/htdocs</code>, you might want to put the password file(s) in <code>/usr/local/apache/passwd</code>.</p> @@ -433,20 +433,20 @@ Require group GroupName</pre> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireany"><RequireAny></a></code> allow logic to be applied so that the order in which authorization - is handled can be completely controled through the configuration. + is handled can be completely controlled through the configuration. See <a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#logic">Authorization - Containers</a> for an example of they may be applied.</p> + Containers</a> for an example of how they may be applied.</p> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="beyond" id="beyond">Beyond just authorization</a></h2> - <p>The way that authorization can be apply is now much more flexible + <p>The way that authorization can be applied is now much more flexible than just a single check against a single data store. Ordering, logic and choosing how authorization will be done is now possible.</p> <h3><a name="authandororder" id="authandororder">Applying logic and ordering</a></h3> - <p>Controling how and in what order authorization will be applied + <p>Controlling how and in what order authorization will be applied has been a bit of a mystery in the past. In Apache 2.2 a provider-based authentication mechanism was introduced to decouple the actual authentication process from authorization and supporting functionality. @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ Require group GroupName</pre> <p>The authorization providers <code>all</code>, <code>env</code>, <code>host</code> and <code>ip</code> let you - allow or deny access based other host based criteria such as + allow or deny access based on other host based criteria such as host name or ip address of the machine requesting a document.</p> @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ Require group GroupName</pre> <h3><a name="filesystem" id="filesystem">Access Control backwards compatibility</a></h3> <p>One of the side effects of adopting a provider based mechanism for - authentication is that the need for the previous access control directives + authentication is that the previous access control directives <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#order">Order</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#allow">Allow</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#deny">Deny</a></code> and @@ -565,11 +565,11 @@ Require group GroupName</pre> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> -<h2><a name="socache" id="socache">Authentication Cacheing</a></h2> +<h2><a name="socache" id="socache">Authentication Caching</a></h2> <p>There may be times when authentication puts an unacceptable load on a provider or on your network. This is most likely to affect users of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code> (or third-party/custom providers). - To deal with this, HTTPD 2.3/2.4 introduces a new cacheing provider + To deal with this, HTTPD 2.3/2.4 introduces a new caching provider <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_socache.html">mod_authn_socache</a></code> to cache credentials and reduce the load on the origin provider(s).</p> <p>This may offer a substantial performance boost to some users.</p> |