[Cialug] apache2 authentication with Windows PDC

[Dave Hala Jr]

Google a bit and see if you can do PDC authentication from within
a .htaccess file.


On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:49 -0600, Tim Champion 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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