[Cialug] apache2 authentication with Windows PDC

Scott Prader sprader at iastate.edu
Thu Dec 2 12:17:23 CST 2010


Hi Tim,

Did you try setting the 'PerlSetVar ntlmdebug'* *variable? Even if it's only
logging binary data, it might be possible to match it up with what's going
on with the apache-side of things. If anything comes across, tcpdump is
likely to catch it whether or not the log does.

-Scott

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been banging my head against a wall for a day or so here.
>
> I have an Ubuntu web server running apache2. What I want to do is have a
> certain directory path (this path is browse-able, anybody is currently able
> to view and download raw files) and I want a specific directory protected
> with http authentication, and for that authentication to be against the
> Windows PDC (in the same network).
>
> I've found this:
>
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/man3/Apache2::AuthenNTLM.3pm.html
> which tells me to use NTLM authentication, there's not enough information
> here to get things working.
>
> What I have now is a <Location> section in apache2.conf that looks similar
> to what is in the above link.  I am, of course, plugging in all my network
> specific stuff (pdc, domain name, etc) I'm not really seeing anything in
> error logs, I just get a Internal Server error on Firefox/Ubuntu, and a
> "Forbidden" page on IE/Windows when I try and browse to the path.
>
> so, I guess I'm asking if anybody had done this sort of thing before, and
> if so, can you point me in the right direction here?  I just don't have any
> feeling for how to troubleshoot this. No logs I can find are updating on
> failure.
>
> Tim Champion
> timchampion at gmail.com
>
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-- 
Scott Prader
Undergraduate Electrical Engineer
CARC, SSCL
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