Authentication in 2.0

[Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>]

I know I've been a little out of it for the last little bit. I'm finding
some things that seem a little undesired on the
httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0 site, in particular regarding authentication.
There are a number of docs on there that refer to auth changes in
2.0.44, which is confusing some folks, since 2.0.44 is not released yet,
and they are still trying to struggle along with 2.0.43 or earlier.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth.html is a 404, and it's
not clear what folks should do upon encountering that particular
problem.

Now, I apologize if this has come up before, and been resolved to
everyone's satisfaction, but if a module goes away in a particular
version (even assuming that version has been released!) shouldn't there
be some period during which there's some kind of place holder telling
people what that functionality has been replaced with?

It seems to me that mod_auth's functionality has been replaced with
several other modules - mod_auth_basic, mod_authz_groupfile,
mod_authn_file - and apart from having to redo the auth tutorial
document, this means some added confusion for the users, and I'd like to
minimize their frustration as they transition to the new way of thinking
about things. And, of course, I have to redo my ApacheCon presentation,
also. *sigh*.

Thoughts?

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Re: Authentication in 2.0

[Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Rich Bowen wrote:

> I know I've been a little out of it for the last little bit. I'm finding
> some things that seem a little undesired on the
> httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0 site, in particular regarding authentication.
> There are a number of docs on there that refer to auth changes in
> 2.0.44, which is confusing some folks, since 2.0.44 is not released yet,
> and they are still trying to struggle along with 2.0.43 or earlier.
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth.html is a 404, and it's
> not clear what folks should do upon encountering that particular
> problem.
>
> Now, I apologize if this has come up before, and been resolved to
> everyone's satisfaction, but if a module goes away in a particular
> version (even assuming that version has been released!) shouldn't there
> be some period during which there's some kind of place holder telling
> people what that functionality has been replaced with?

I see that this was covered rather thoroughally on dev@ and I am
catching up there.

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Success to failure. Just a matter of degrees.


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