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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Cornelius Koelbel <co...@gmx.de> on 2007/09/20 00:04:15 UTC

[users@httpd] xradius_auth internal server error

Dear list,

I must admin I am a bit confused and desperate.

I am using ubuntu 7.04, i.e. apache 2.2.
I'd like to do a radius authentication to use OTP.

So I downloaded and installed mod_auth_xradius-0.4.6 successfully.
But I wasn't successful in configuring it.

Obviously I did't quite get the Authentication stacking of apache.

I got the following auth_modules laoded:
auth_basic authn_file auth_xradius authz_default authz_groupfile
authz_host authz_user

I loaded the mod_auth_xradius:

LoadModule auth_xradius_module
/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_xradius.so
after loading mod_auth_basic.

I got the configuration of xradius in a directory:

--snip--
        <Directory /var/www/site3/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all

                 AuthType Basic
                 AuthName "Please enter your username and WiKID one-time
passcode for entry to this site."
                 AuthXRadiusAddServer "localhost:1812" "testing123"
                 AuthXRadiusTimeout 7
                 AuthXRadiusRetries 2
                 require valid-user
--snip--

But I always get this internal server error:

[Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] Internal error: pcfg_openfile()
called with NULL filename
[Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] [client 172.16.200.31] (9)Bad file
descriptor: Could not open password file: (null)

Please could you put some light on my understanding of the auth thingy?

Kind regards
Cornelius

Re: [users@httpd] xradius_auth internal server error

Posted by Cornelius Koelbel <co...@gmx.de>.
Hello Paul,

thanks a lot. That worked for me.

Kind regards
Cornelius


Paul Querna schrieb:
> Add
> AuthBasicProvider xradius
> 
> To your config.
> 
> The error message you got is from mod_authn_file, saying it couldn't
> find a htpasswd file (well, it wasn't configured, so not surprising).
> 
> In 2.2.x AuthBasicProvider was added, and you need to specify which
> module should provide the backend for authentication:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider
> 
> -Paul
> 
> Cornelius Koelbel wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I must admin I am a bit confused and desperate.
>>
>> I am using ubuntu 7.04, i.e. apache 2.2.
>> I'd like to do a radius authentication to use OTP.
>>
>> So I downloaded and installed mod_auth_xradius-0.4.6 successfully.
>> But I wasn't successful in configuring it.
>>
>> Obviously I did't quite get the Authentication stacking of apache.
>>
>> I got the following auth_modules laoded:
>> auth_basic authn_file auth_xradius authz_default authz_groupfile
>> authz_host authz_user
>>
>> I loaded the mod_auth_xradius:
>>
>> LoadModule auth_xradius_module
>> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_xradius.so
>> after loading mod_auth_basic.
>>
>> I got the configuration of xradius in a directory:
>>
>> --snip--
>>         <Directory /var/www/site3/>
>>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>                 AllowOverride None
>>                 Order allow,deny
>>                 allow from all
>>
>>                  AuthType Basic
>>                  AuthName "Please enter your username and WiKID one-time
>> passcode for entry to this site."
>>                  AuthXRadiusAddServer "localhost:1812" "testing123"
>>                  AuthXRadiusTimeout 7
>>                  AuthXRadiusRetries 2
>>                  require valid-user
>> --snip--
>>
>> But I always get this internal server error:
>>
>> [Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] Internal error: pcfg_openfile()
>> called with NULL filename
>> [Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] [client 172.16.200.31] (9)Bad file
>> descriptor: Could not open password file: (null)
>>
>> Please could you put some light on my understanding of the auth thingy?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Cornelius
> 
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Re: [users@httpd] xradius_auth internal server error

Posted by Paul Querna <ch...@force-elite.com>.
Add
AuthBasicProvider xradius

To your config.

The error message you got is from mod_authn_file, saying it couldn't
find a htpasswd file (well, it wasn't configured, so not surprising).

In 2.2.x AuthBasicProvider was added, and you need to specify which
module should provide the backend for authentication:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider

-Paul

Cornelius Koelbel wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I must admin I am a bit confused and desperate.
> 
> I am using ubuntu 7.04, i.e. apache 2.2.
> I'd like to do a radius authentication to use OTP.
> 
> So I downloaded and installed mod_auth_xradius-0.4.6 successfully.
> But I wasn't successful in configuring it.
> 
> Obviously I did't quite get the Authentication stacking of apache.
> 
> I got the following auth_modules laoded:
> auth_basic authn_file auth_xradius authz_default authz_groupfile
> authz_host authz_user
> 
> I loaded the mod_auth_xradius:
> 
> LoadModule auth_xradius_module
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_xradius.so
> after loading mod_auth_basic.
> 
> I got the configuration of xradius in a directory:
> 
> --snip--
>         <Directory /var/www/site3/>
>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>                 AllowOverride None
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 allow from all
> 
>                  AuthType Basic
>                  AuthName "Please enter your username and WiKID one-time
> passcode for entry to this site."
>                  AuthXRadiusAddServer "localhost:1812" "testing123"
>                  AuthXRadiusTimeout 7
>                  AuthXRadiusRetries 2
>                  require valid-user
> --snip--
> 
> But I always get this internal server error:
> 
> [Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] Internal error: pcfg_openfile()
> called with NULL filename
> [Wed Sep 19 23:55:29 2007] [error] [client 172.16.200.31] (9)Bad file
> descriptor: Could not open password file: (null)
> 
> Please could you put some light on my understanding of the auth thingy?
> 
> Kind regards
> Cornelius


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