Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4
Description: | Authorization based on file ownership |
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Status: | Extension |
Module�Identifier: | authz_owner_module |
Source�File: | mod_authz_owner.c |
Compatibility: | Available in Apache 2.1 and later |
This module authorizes access to files by comparing the userid used
for HTTP authentication (the web userid) with the file-system owner or
group of the requested file. The supplied username and password
must be already properly verified by an authentication module,
such as mod_auth_basic
or
mod_auth_digest
. mod_authz_owner
recognizes two arguments for the Require
directive, file-owner
and
file-group
, as follows:
file-owner
jones
, then the
username used to access it through the web must be jones
as well.file-group
mod_authz_groupfile
or mod_authz_dbm
,
and the web-username must be a member of that group. For example, if
the operating system says the requested file is owned by (system)
group accounts
, the group accounts
must
appear in the group database and the web-username used in the request
must be a member of that group.If mod_authz_owner
is used in order to authorize
a resource that is not actually present in the filesystem
(i.e. a virtual resource), it will deny the access.
Particularly it will never authorize content negotiated "MultiViews" resources.
This module provides no directives.
Consider a multi-user system running the Apache Web server, with
each user having his or her own files in ~/public_html/private
. Assuming that there is a single
AuthDBMUserFile
database
that lists all of their web-usernames, and that these usernames match
the system's usernames that actually own the files on the server, then
the following stanza would allow only the user himself access to his
own files. User jones
would not be allowed to access
files in /home/smith/public_html/private
unless they
were owned by jones
instead of smith
.
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/private"> AuthType Basic AuthName MyPrivateFiles AuthBasicProvider dbm AuthDBMUserFile "/usr/local/apache2/etc/.htdbm-all" Require file-owner </Directory>
Consider a system similar to the one described above, but with
some users that share their project files in
~/public_html/project-foo
. The files are owned by the
system group foo
and there is a single AuthDBMGroupFile
database that
contains all of the web-usernames and their group membership,
i.e. they must be at least member of a group named
foo
. So if jones
and smith
are both member of the group foo
, then both will be
authorized to access the project-foo
directories of
each other.
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/project-foo"> AuthType Basic AuthName "Project Foo Files" AuthBasicProvider dbm # combined user/group database AuthDBMUserFile "/usr/local/apache2/etc/.htdbm-all" AuthDBMGroupFile "/usr/local/apache2/etc/.htdbm-all" Satisfy All Require file-group </Directory>