[Zope] ssl certificate based authentication

Vladimir Petrovic vladap at criticalpublics.com
Mon Feb 14 06:00:09 EST 2005


On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:35, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> BORGULYA Gergely wrote at 2005-2-13 15:20 +0100:
> >I would like to have the users of my site authenticated via ssl
> > certificates. Authentication works well with apache2, and I would like to
> > have my zope working behind the proxy module of apache. I would not find
> > it neccessary to leave the authentication to be done by apache, but I
> > expect it to be simplier.
> > ...
> >Is there a common (or uncommon) solution for this case?
>
> There is a product called "RemoteUserFolder" which should allow
> "foreign" authentication (e.g. by Apache or a different WebServer).
> It looks for "REMOTE_USER" which the WebServer must provide.
> I do not know what you must do to convince Apache to provide
> this information. It might not work with "mod_proxy"...

ther is a directive RequestHeader (from mod_headers) which will work with 
mod_proxy (server behind the proxy will see these headers).


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