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- <title>Apache module mod_auth_digest</title>
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- <!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
-
- <h1 align="CENTER">Module mod_auth_digest</h1>
-
- <p>This module provides for user authentication using MD5
- Digest Authentication.</p>
-
- <p><a href="module-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile"
- rel="Help"><strong>Source File:</strong></a>
- mod_auth_digest.c<br />
- <a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module Identifier:</strong></a>
- auth_digest_module</p>
-
- <h2>Summary</h2>
-
- <p>This is an updated version of <a
- href="mod_digest.html">mod_digest</a>. However, it has not been
- extensively tested and is therefore marked experimental. If you
- use this module, you must make sure to <em>not</em> use
- mod_digest (because they share some of the same configuration
- directives).</p>
-
- <h2>Directives</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#authdigestfile">AuthDigestFile</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="#authdigestgroupfile">AuthDigestGroupFile</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="#authdigestqop">AuthDigestQop</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="#authdigestnoncelifetime">AuthDigestNonceLifetime</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="#authdigestnonceformat">AuthDigestNonceFormat</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="#authdigestnccheck">AuthDigestNcCheck</a></li>
-
- <li><a
- href="#authdigestalgorithm">AuthDigestAlgorithm</a></li>
+<html>
+<head>
+<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+<!--
+XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+ This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT
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+-->
+<title>mod_auth_digest - Apache HTTP Server</title>
+<link href="../style/manual.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
+</head>
+<body>
+<blockquote>
+<div align="center">
+<img alt="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]" src="../images/sub.gif"><h3>Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</h3>
+</div>
+<h1 align="center">Apache Module mod_auth_digest</h1>
+<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><span class="help">Description:</span></td><td>
+<description>User authentication using MD5
+ Digest Authentication.</description>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="module-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier" class="help">Module Identifier:</a></td><td>auth_digest_module</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<h2>Summary</h2>
+<summary>
- <li><a href="#authdigestdomain">AuthDigestDomain</a></li>
- </ul>
+<p>This module implements HTTP Digest Authentication. However, it
+ has not been extensively tested and is therefore marked
+ experimental.</p>
- <p>See also: <a href="core.html#require">Require</a> and <a
- href="core.html#satisfy">Satisfy</a>.</p>
+</summary>
+<p>
+<strong>See also:</strong>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<code class="directive"><a href="core.html#authname" class="directive">AuthName</a></code>
+</li>
+<li>
+<code class="directive"><a href="core.html#authtype" class="directive">AuthType</a></code>
+</li>
+<li>
+<code class="directive"><a href="core.html#require" class="directive">Require</a></code>
+</li>
+<li>
+<code class="directive"><a href="core.html#satisfy" class="directive">Satisfy</a></code>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Directives</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestalgorithm">AuthDigestAlgorithm</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestdomain">AuthDigestDomain</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestfile">AuthDigestFile</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestgroupfile">AuthDigestGroupFile</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestnccheck">AuthDigestNcCheck</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestnonceformat">AuthDigestNonceFormat</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestnoncelifetime">AuthDigestNonceLifetime</a>
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="#authdigestqop">AuthDigestQop</a>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Using Digest Authentication</h2>
- <h3><a id="usingdigest" name="usingdigest">Using Digest
- Authentication</a></h3>
- <p>Using MD5 Digest authentication is very simple. Simply set
+<p>Using MD5 Digest authentication is very simple. Simply set
up authentication normally, using "AuthType Digest" and
"AuthDigestFile" instead of the normal "AuthType Basic" and
"AuthUserFile"; also, replace any "AuthGroupFile" with
"AuthDigestGroupFile". Then add a "AuthDigestDomain" directive
containing at least the root URI(s) for this protection space.
Example:</p>
-<pre>
- <Location /private/>
- AuthType Digest
- AuthName "private area"
- AuthDigestDomain /private/ http://mirror.my.dom/private2/
- AuthDigestFile /web/auth/.digest_pw
- Require valid-user
+
+<blockquote>
+<table cellpadding="10">
+<tr>
+<td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><code>
+ <Location /private/><br>
+ AuthType Digest<br>
+ AuthName "private area"<br>
+ AuthDigestDomain /private/ http://mirror.my.dom/private2/<br>
+ AuthDigestFile /web/auth/.digest_pw<br>
+ Require valid-user<br>
</Location>
-</pre>
+</code></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</blockquote>
- <p><strong>Note:</strong> MD5 authentication provides a more
+
+<blockquote>
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td bgcolor="#e0e5f5">
+<p align="center">
+<strong>Note</strong>
+</p>
+
+<p>MD5 authentication provides a more
secure password system than Basic authentication, but only
works with supporting browsers. As of this writing (October 2001),
the only major browsers which support digest authentication are
@@ -93,275 +133,424 @@
Therefore, we do not yet recommend using this feature on a large
Internet site. However, for personal and intra-net use, where
browser users can be controlled, it is ideal.</p>
- <hr />
- <h2><a id="authdigestfile"
- name="authdigestfile">AuthDigestFile</a> directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestFile
- <em>file-path</em><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest<br />
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestAlgorithm">AuthDigestAlgorithm</a> <a name="authdigestalgorithm">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Selects the algorithm used to calculate the challenge and
+response hases in digest authentication</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestAlgorithm MD5|MD5-sess</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>AuthDigestAlgorithm MD5</code></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestAlgorithm</code> directive
+ selects the algorithm used to calculate the challenge and response
+ hashes.</p>
- <p>The AuthDigestFile directive sets the name of a textual file
- containing the list of users and encoded passwords for digest
- authentication. <em>File-path</em> is the absolute path to the
- user file.</p>
- <p>The digest file uses a special format. Files in this format
- can be created using the <a
- href="../programs/htdigest.html">htdigest</a> utility found in
+<p>
+<strong><em>MD5-sess</em> is not correctly implemented
+ yet</strong>.
+ </p>
+
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestDomain">AuthDigestDomain</a> <a name="authdigestdomain">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>URIs that are in the same protection space for digest
+authentication</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestDomain <em>URI</em> [<em>URI</em>] ...</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
+
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestDomain</code> directive allows
+ you to specify one or more URIs which are in the same protection
+ space (i.e. use the same realm and username/password info). The
+ specified URIs are prefixes, i.e. the client will assume that all
+ URIs "below" these are also protected by the same
+ username/password. The URIs may be either absolute URIs
+ (i.e. inluding a scheme, host, port, etc) or relative URIs.</p>
+
+
+<p>This directive <em>should</em> always be specified and
+ contain at least the (set of) root URI(s) for this space.
+ Omitting to do so will cause the client to send the
+ Authorization header for <em>every request</em> sent to this
+ server. Apart from increasing the size of the request, it may
+ also have a detrimental effect on performance if
+ "AuthDigestNcCheck" is on.</p>
+
+
+<p>The URIs specified can also point to different servers, in
+ which case clients (which understand this) will then share
+ username/password info across multiple servers without
+ prompting the user each time. </p>
+
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestFile">AuthDigestFile</a> <a name="authdigestfile">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Location of the text file containing the list
+of users and encoded passwords for digest authentication</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestFile <em>file-path</em>
+</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
+
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestFile</code> directive sets the
+ name of a textual file containing the list of users and encoded
+ passwords for digest authentication. <em>File-path</em> is the
+ absolute path to the user file.</p>
+
+
+<p>The digest file uses a special format. Files in this format
+ can be created using the <a href="../programs/htdigest.html">htdigest</a> utility found in
the support/ subdirectory of the Apache distribution.</p>
- <hr />
- <h2><a id="authdigestgroupfile"
- name="authdigestgroupfile">AuthDigestGroupFile</a>
- directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestGroupFile
- <em>file-path</em><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestGroupFile">AuthDigestGroupFile</a> <a name="authdigestgroupfile">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Name of the text file containing the list of groups
+for digest authentication</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestGroupFile <em>file-path</em>
+</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
- <p>The AuthDigestGroupFile directive sets the name of a textual
- file containing the list of groups and their members (user
- names). <em>File-path</em> is the absolute path to the group
- file.</p>
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestGroupFile</code> directive sets
+ the name of a textual file containing the list of groups and their
+ members (user names). <em>File-path</em> is the absolute path to
+ the group file.</p>
- <p>Each line of the group file contains a groupname followed by
+
+<p>Each line of the group file contains a groupname followed by
a colon, followed by the member usernames separated by spaces.
Example:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <code>mygroup: bob joe anne</code>
- </blockquote>
- Note that searching large text files is <em>very</em>
- inefficient.
- <p>Security: make sure that the AuthGroupFile is stored outside
- the document tree of the web-server; do <em>not</em> put it in
- the directory that it protects. Otherwise, clients will be able
- to download the AuthGroupFile.</p>
- <hr />
+<blockquote>
+<table cellpadding="10">
+<tr>
+<td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><code>mygroup: bob joe anne</code></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</blockquote>
- <h2><a id="authdigestqop"
- name="authdigestqop">AuthDigestQop</a> directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestQop
- none|auth|auth-int [auth|auth-int]<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Default"
- rel="Help"><strong>Default:</strong></a> <code>AuthDigestQop
- auth</code><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
- <p>The AuthDigestQop directive determines the
- quality-of-protection to use. <em>auth</em> will only do
- authentication (username/password); <em>auth-int</em> is
- authentication plus integrity checking (an MD5 hash of the
- entity is also computed and checked); <em>none</em> will cause
- the module to use the old RFC-2069 digest algorithm (which does
- not include integrity checking). Both <em>auth</em> and
- <em>auth-int</em> may be specified, in which the case the
- browser will choose which of these to use. <em>none</em> should
- only be used if the browser for some reason does not like the
- challenge it receives otherwise.</p>
+<p>Note that searching large text files is <em>very</em>
+ inefficient.</p>
- <p><strong><em>auth-int</em> is not implemented
- yet</strong>.</p>
- <hr />
- <h2><a id="authdigestnoncelifetime"
- name="authdigestnoncelifetime">AuthDigestNonceLifetime</a>
- directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestNonceLifetime
- <em>seconds</em><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Default"
- rel="Help"><strong>Default:</strong></a>
- <code>AuthDigestNonceLifetime 300</code><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
-
- <p>The AuthDigestNonceLifetime directive controls how long the
- server nonce is valid. When the client contacts the server
- using an expired nonce the server will send back a 401 with
- <code>stale=true</code>. If <em>seconds</em> is greater than 0
- then it specifies the amount of time for which the nonce is
- valid; this should probably never be set to less than 10
- seconds. If <em>seconds</em> is less than 0 then the nonce
- never expires. <!-- Not implemented yet
- If <EM>seconds</EM> is 0 then the nonce may be used exactly once
- by the client. Note that while one-time-nonces provide higher security
- against replay attacks, they also have significant performance
- implications, as the browser cannot pipeline or multiple connections
- for the requests. Because browsers cannot easily detect that
- one-time-nonces are being used, this may lead to browsers trying to
- pipeline requests and receiving 401 responses for all but the first
- request, requiring the browser to resend the requests. Note also that
- the protection against reply attacks only makes sense for dynamically
- generated content and things like POST requests; for static content
- the attacker may already have the complete response, so one-time-nonces
- do not make sense here.
- -->
- </p>
- <hr />
+<p>Security: make sure that the AuthGroupFile is stored outside
+ the document tree of the web-server; do <em>not</em> put it in
+ the directory that it protects. Otherwise, clients will be able
+ to download the AuthGroupFile.</p>
- <h2><a id="authdigestnonceformat"
- name="authdigestnonceformat">AuthDigestNonceFormat</a>
- directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestNonceFormat
- <em>???</em><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Default"
- rel="Help"><strong>Default:</strong></a>
- <code>AuthDigestNonceFormat ???</code><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestNcCheck">AuthDigestNcCheck</a> <a name="authdigestnccheck">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Enables or disables checking of the nonce-count sent by the
+server</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestNcCheck On|Off</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>AuthDigestNcCheck Off</code></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>server config</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
- <p><strong>Not implemented yet.</strong> <!--
- <P>The AuthDigestNonceFormat directive determines how the nonce is
- generated.
- -->
- </p>
- <hr />
+<p>
+<strong>Not implemented yet.</strong>
- <h2><a id="authdigestnccheck"
- name="authdigestnccheck">AuthDigestNcCheck</a> directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestNcCheck
- On|Off<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Default"
- rel="Help"><strong>Default:</strong></a>
- <code>AuthDigestNcCheck Off</code><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> server config<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> <em>Not
- applicable</em><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
+</p>
- <p><strong>Not implemented yet.</strong> <!--
- <P>The AuthDigestNcCheck directive enables or disables the checking of the
- nonce-count sent by the server.
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestNonceFormat">AuthDigestNonceFormat</a> <a name="authdigestnonceformat">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Determines how the nonce is generated</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>???</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>???</code></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
- <P>While recommended from a security standpoint, turning this directive
- On has one important performance implication. To check the nonce-count
- *all* requests (which have an Authorization header, irrespective of
- whether they require digest authentication) must be serialized through
- a critical section. If the server is handling a large number of
- requests which contain the Authorization header then this may noticeably
- impact performance.
- -->
- </p>
- <hr />
+<p>
+<strong>Not implemented yet.</strong>
- <h2><a id="authdigestalgorithm"
- name="authdigestalgorithm">AuthDigestAlgorithm</a>
- directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestAlgorithm
- MD5|MD5-sess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Default"
- rel="Help"><strong>Default:</strong></a>
- <code>AuthDigestAlgorithm MD5</code><br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
+</p>
- <p>The AuthDigestAlgorithm directive selects the algorithm used
- to calculate the challenge and response hashes.</p>
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestNonceLifetime">AuthDigestNonceLifetime</a> <a name="authdigestnoncelifetime">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>How long the server nonce is valid</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestNonceLifetime <em>seconds</em>
+</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>AuthDigestNonceLifetime 300</code></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
- <p><strong><em>MD5-sess</em> is not correctly implemented
- yet</strong>. <!--
- <P>To use <EM>MD5-sess</EM> you must first code up the
- <VAR>get_userpw_hash()</VAR> function in <VAR>mod_auth_digest.c</VAR> .
- -->
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestNonceLifetime</code> directive
+ controls how long the server nonce is valid. When the client
+ contacts the server using an expired nonce the server will send
+ back a 401 with <code>stale=true</code>. If <em>seconds</em> is
+ greater than 0 then it specifies the amount of time for which the
+ nonce is valid; this should probably never be set to less than 10
+ seconds. If <em>seconds</em> is less than 0 then the nonce never
+ expires.
</p>
- <hr />
- <h2><a id="authdigestdomain"
- name="authdigestdomain">AuthDigestDomain</a> directive</h2>
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax"
- rel="Help"><strong>Syntax:</strong></a> AuthDigestDomain
- <em>URI</em> [<em>URI</em>] ...<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Context"
- rel="Help"><strong>Context:</strong></a> directory,
- .htaccess<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Override"
- rel="Help"><strong>Override:</strong></a> AuthConfig<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Status"
- rel="Help"><strong>Status:</strong></a> Experimental<br />
- <a href="directive-dict.html#Module"
- rel="Help"><strong>Module:</strong></a> mod_auth_digest
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h2>
+<a name="AuthDigestQop">AuthDigestQop</a> <a name="authdigestqop">Directive</a>
+</h2>
+<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
+<tr>
+<td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Determines the quality-of-protection to use in digest
+authentication</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax" class="help">Syntax:</a></td><td>
+<syntax>AuthDigestQop none|auth|auth-int [auth|auth-int]</syntax>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Default" class="help">Default:</a></td><td><code>AuthDigestQop auth</code></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Context" class="help">Context:</a></td><td>directory, .htaccess</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Override" class="help">Override:</a></td><td>AuthConfig</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Status" class="help">Status:</a></td><td>Experimental</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><a href="directive-dict.html#Module" class="help">Module:</a></td><td>mod_auth_digest</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<usage>
- <p>The AuthDigestDomain directive allows you to specify one or
- more URIs which are in the same protection space (i.e. use the
- same realm and username/password info). The specified URIs are
- prefixes, i.e. the client will assume that all URIs "below"
- these are also protected by the same username/password. The
- URIs may be either absolute URIs (i.e. inluding a scheme, host,
- port, etc) or relative URIs.</p>
+<p>The <code class="directive">AuthDigestQop</code> directive determines
+ the quality-of-protection to use. <em>auth</em> will only do
+ authentication (username/password); <em>auth-int</em> is
+ authentication plus integrity checking (an MD5 hash of the entity
+ is also computed and checked); <em>none</em> will cause the module
+ to use the old RFC-2069 digest algorithm (which does not include
+ integrity checking). Both <em>auth</em> and <em>auth-int</em> may
+ be specified, in which the case the browser will choose which of
+ these to use. <em>none</em> should only be used if the browser for
+ some reason does not like the challenge it receives otherwise.</p>
- <p>This directive <em>should</em> always be specified and
- contain at least the (set of) root URI(s) for this space.
- Omitting to do so will cause the client to send the
- Authorization header for <em>every request</em> sent to this
- server. Apart from increasing the size of the request, it may
- also have a detrimental effect on performance if
- "AuthDigestNcCheck" is on.</p>
- <p>The URIs specified can also point to different servers, in
- which case clients (which understand this) will then share
- username/password info across multiple servers without
- prompting the user each time.
- <!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->
- </p>
- </body>
-</html>
+<p>
+<strong><em>auth-int</em> is not implemented
+ yet</strong>.</p>
+</usage>
+<hr>
+<h3 align="center">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</h3>
+<a href="./"><img alt="Index" src="../images/index.gif"></a><a href="../"><img alt="Home" src="../images/home.gif"></a>
+</blockquote>
+</body>
+</html>
1.1 httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/mod_auth_digest.xml
Index: mod_auth_digest.xml
===================================================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../style/manual.xsl"?>
<modulesynopsis>
<name>mod_auth_digest</name>
<description>User authentication using MD5
Digest Authentication.</description>
<status>Experimental</status>
<sourcefile>mod_auth_digest.c</sourcefile>
<identifier>auth_digest_module</identifier>
<summary>
<p>This module implements HTTP Digest Authentication. However, it
has not been extensively tested and is therefore marked
experimental.</p>
</summary>
<seealso><directive module="core">AuthName</directive></seealso>
<seealso><directive module="core">AuthType</directive></seealso>
<seealso><directive module="core">Require</directive></seealso>
<seealso><directive module="core">Satisfy</directive></seealso>
<section><title>Using Digest Authentication</title>
<p>Using MD5 Digest authentication is very simple. Simply set
up authentication normally, using "AuthType Digest" and
"AuthDigestFile" instead of the normal "AuthType Basic" and
"AuthUserFile"; also, replace any "AuthGroupFile" with
"AuthDigestGroupFile". Then add a "AuthDigestDomain" directive
containing at least the root URI(s) for this protection space.
Example:</p>
<example>
<Location /private/><br />
AuthType Digest<br />
AuthName "private area"<br />
AuthDigestDomain /private/ http://mirror.my.dom/private2/<br />
AuthDigestFile /web/auth/.digest_pw<br />
Require valid-user<br />
</Location>
</example>
<note><title>Note</title>
<p>MD5 authentication provides a more
secure password system than Basic authentication, but only
works with supporting browsers. As of this writing (October 2001),
the only major browsers which support digest authentication are
<a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera 4.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/">MS Internet
Explorer 5.0</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">Amaya</a>.
Therefore, we do not yet recommend using this feature on a large
Internet site. However, for personal and intra-net use, where
browser users can be controlled, it is ideal.</p>
</note>
</section>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestFile</name>
<description>Location of the text file containing the list
of users and encoded passwords for digest authentication</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestFile <em>file-path</em></syntax>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestFile</directive> directive sets the
name of a textual file containing the list of users and encoded
passwords for digest authentication. <em>File-path</em> is the
absolute path to the user file.</p>
<p>The digest file uses a special format. Files in this format
can be created using the <a
href="../programs/htdigest.html">htdigest</a> utility found in
the support/ subdirectory of the Apache distribution.</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestGroupFile</name>
<description>Name of the text file containing the list of groups
for digest authentication</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestGroupFile <em>file-path</em></syntax>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestGroupFile</directive> directive sets
the name of a textual file containing the list of groups and their
members (user names). <em>File-path</em> is the absolute path to
the group file.</p>
<p>Each line of the group file contains a groupname followed by
a colon, followed by the member usernames separated by spaces.
Example:</p>
<example>mygroup: bob joe anne</example>
<p>Note that searching large text files is <em>very</em>
inefficient.</p>
<p>Security: make sure that the AuthGroupFile is stored outside
the document tree of the web-server; do <em>not</em> put it in
the directory that it protects. Otherwise, clients will be able
to download the AuthGroupFile.</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestQop</name>
<description>Determines the quality-of-protection to use in digest
authentication</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestQop none|auth|auth-int [auth|auth-int]</syntax>
<default>AuthDigestQop auth</default>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestQop</directive> directive determines
the quality-of-protection to use. <em>auth</em> will only do
authentication (username/password); <em>auth-int</em> is
authentication plus integrity checking (an MD5 hash of the entity
is also computed and checked); <em>none</em> will cause the module
to use the old RFC-2069 digest algorithm (which does not include
integrity checking). Both <em>auth</em> and <em>auth-int</em> may
be specified, in which the case the browser will choose which of
these to use. <em>none</em> should only be used if the browser for
some reason does not like the challenge it receives otherwise.</p>
<p><strong><em>auth-int</em> is not implemented
yet</strong>.</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestNonceLifetime</name>
<description>How long the server nonce is valid</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestNonceLifetime <em>seconds</em></syntax>
<default>AuthDigestNonceLifetime 300</default>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestNonceLifetime</directive> directive
controls how long the server nonce is valid. When the client
contacts the server using an expired nonce the server will send
back a 401 with <code>stale=true</code>. If <em>seconds</em> is
greater than 0 then it specifies the amount of time for which the
nonce is valid; this should probably never be set to less than 10
seconds. If <em>seconds</em> is less than 0 then the nonce never
expires. <!-- Not implemented yet If <EM>seconds</EM> is 0 then
the nonce may be used exactly once by the client. Note that while
one-time-nonces provide higher security against replay attacks,
they also have significant performance implications, as the
browser cannot pipeline or multiple connections for the
requests. Because browsers cannot easily detect that
one-time-nonces are being used, this may lead to browsers trying
to pipeline requests and receiving 401 responses for all but the
first request, requiring the browser to resend the requests. Note
also that the protection against reply attacks only makes sense
for dynamically generated content and things like POST requests;
for static content the attacker may already have the complete
response, so one-time-nonces do not make sense here. -->
</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestNonceFormat</name>
<description>Determines how the nonce is generated</description>
<syntax>???</syntax>
<default>???</default>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p><strong>Not implemented yet.</strong> <!--
<P>The AuthDigestNonceFormat directive determines how the nonce is
generated.
-->
</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestNcCheck</name>
<description>Enables or disables checking of the nonce-count sent by the
server</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestNcCheck On|Off</syntax>
<default>AuthDigestNcCheck Off</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context></contextlist>
<usage>
<p><strong>Not implemented yet.</strong> <!--
<P>The AuthDigestNcCheck directive enables or disables the checking of the
nonce-count sent by the server.
<P>While recommended from a security standpoint, turning this directive
On has one important performance implication. To check the nonce-count
*all* requests (which have an Authorization header, irrespective of
whether they require digest authentication) must be serialized through
a critical section. If the server is handling a large number of
requests which contain the Authorization header then this may noticeably
impact performance.
-->
</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestAlgorithm</name>
<description>Selects the algorithm used to calculate the challenge and
response hases in digest authentication</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestAlgorithm MD5|MD5-sess</syntax>
<default>AuthDigestAlgorithm MD5</default>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestAlgorithm</directive> directive
selects the algorithm used to calculate the challenge and response
hashes.</p>
<p><strong><em>MD5-sess</em> is not correctly implemented
yet</strong>. <!--
<P>To use <EM>MD5-sess</EM> you must first code up the
<VAR>get_userpw_hash()</VAR> function in <VAR>mod_auth_digest.c</VAR> .
-->
</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>AuthDigestDomain</name>
<description>URIs that are in the same protection space for digest
authentication</description>
<syntax>AuthDigestDomain <em>URI</em> [<em>URI</em>] ...</syntax>
<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>
</contextlist>
<override>AuthConfig</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>AuthDigestDomain</directive> directive allows
you to specify one or more URIs which are in the same protection
space (i.e. use the same realm and username/password info). The
specified URIs are prefixes, i.e. the client will assume that all
URIs "below" these are also protected by the same
username/password. The URIs may be either absolute URIs
(i.e. inluding a scheme, host, port, etc) or relative URIs.</p>
<p>This directive <em>should</em> always be specified and
contain at least the (set of) root URI(s) for this space.
Omitting to do so will cause the client to send the
Authorization header for <em>every request</em> sent to this
server. Apart from increasing the size of the request, it may
also have a detrimental effect on performance if
"AuthDigestNcCheck" is on.</p>
<p>The URIs specified can also point to different servers, in
which case clients (which understand this) will then share
username/password info across multiple servers without
prompting the user each time. </p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
</modulesynopsis>