OT: Require authentication on Apache proxy server?

[Charlie Farinella]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:07, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Quoting Charles Farinella <cfarinella at AppropriateSolutions.com>:
> > I've been asked to require a username and password in order to access an
> > Apache proxy server.  I can find no reference to this in the Apache
> > proxy 
> > documentation.  Does anyone know how this is done?
> 
> http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/lib-proxy/howto/proxy/
> 
> An exmaple config is at:
> 
> http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/lib-proxy/howto/proxy/

This appears to have worked, thank you.  We're a little in the dark here
about how to do what we're trying to do.  For testing purposes, we need
to require users within the building to provide a username and password
in order to access the internet.  How is this commonly done?

--charlie


> 
>   Basically, you setup the directory that is setup as the path to 'proxy', and 
> add a standard htpasswd file to it.   Basically, the SAME way you configure a 
> normal virtualk directory to be password protected.
> 
> --
> Thomas Charron
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