BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] http access

2008-08-20 13:28:23
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] http access
From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:27:39 +0200
Dejan Batic wrote:

> Thanks for the script but it seems to me that our Linux  
> distributions are
> too different.
>
> In my installation when I look at /etc/apache2/conf.d there is link  
> to the
> file /etc/backup/apache.conf that says:
>
> AuthUserFile  /etc/backuppc/htpasswd
>
> I added manually one user to /etc/backuppc/htpasswd file.
>
> So from what you wrote to me I understand that I should match
> /etc/backuppc/htpasswd with /etc/shadow.

Instead of trying to keep your system users and htpasswd file users in  
sync it might be worth your while to look into using LDAP or NIS  
authentication instead of Apache's basic text file authentication.

Nils Breunese.

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