Plain Text Apache-Format htpasswd Plugin

A description of the Plain Text Apache-Format htpasswd plugin, which accesses Apache-format htpasswd and htgroup files to perform user and group authentication.

To use this plugin:

Create an htpasswd file.
For details regarding this file and the Apache htpasswd utility, see
```
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/htpasswd.html
```
Note: This plugin supports only apache's MD5 encryption format. Use the Apache
```
htpasswd
```
command with the
```
-m
```
option to create htpasswd records and ensure proper encryption.
If you are defining groups, create a htgroup file, using the following format for each group:
```
group-name
:
user-name
,
user-name
,
user-name
```
where
```
group-name
```
is the name of a group and
```
user-name
```
is a user name associated with the group. You can define multiple groups, one under the other. Each group may include multiple users.

Configure the following entry in the "SybaseC8/Security/AccessControl/Authentication" section of the c8-server.conf file:

<section name="SybaseC8/Security">
	...
	<section name="AccessControl">
   ...
   <section name="Authentication">
      <section name="Plugin">
         <preference name="LibraryName"
             value="c8_server_plugins_lib"/>
         <preference name="InitializeFunction"
             value="c8_auth_plugin_htpasswd_initialize"/>
         <preference name="AuthenticateFunction" 
             value="c8_auth_plugin_htpasswd_authenticate"/>
         <preference name="ShutdownFunction"
             value="c8_auth_plugin_htpasswd_shutdown"/>
         <preference name="PasswordFilePath"
             value="
path-to-htpasswd-file
\htpasswd.txt"/>
         <preference name="GroupFilePath" 
             value="
path-to-htgroup-file
\htgroup.txt"/>
       </section>
   ...

where


path-to-htpasswd-file

is the directory path to your htpasswd.txt file and


path-to-htgroup-file

is the directory path to your htgroup.txt file.