AuthUsingAlias

Name

AuthUsingAlias -- FIXME FIXME

Synopsis

AuthUsingAlias [ on|off]

Default

AuthUsingAlias off

Context

<Anonymous>

Module

mod_core

Compatibility

1.2.0pre9 and later

Description

Normally, when the AnonRequirePassword directive is used, the authentication is done using the password entry of the daemon process. However under certain circumstances it may be required for the authentication to be done using the login username & password instead.

See also

Examples

An example of an Anonymous configuration using
AuthUsingAlias
# Basic Read-Only Anonymous Configuration.
<Anonymous /home/ftp>
UserAlias             anonymous  nobody
UserAlias             ftp        nobody
AuthAliasOnly         on
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>
# Give Full Read-Write Anonymous Access to certain users
<Anonymous /home/ftp>
AnonRequirePassword   on
AuthAliasOnly         on
AuthUsingAlias        on
# The list of authorized users.
# user/pass lookup is for each user, not password entry
# of server uid ('nobody' in this example).
UserAlias             fred       nobody
UserAlias             joe        nobody
<Limit ALL>
AllowAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>