[rancid] Re: No Password required to read Configs.

[Nicky Brown]

Thank you Gregers,
This works flawlessly.  It should be enough for our modest current needs.
In time, we can implement something more robust.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Gregers Paludan Nakman <gpnster at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is our simple way of fixing the problem.
>
> Fix the webserve in order to look for .htaccess files in the dir where
> rancid is started from:
>
> vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
> look for "cgi-bin" and change the AllowOverride Parameter:
>
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
>    # AllowOverride None
>    AllowOverride AuthConfig
>    Options None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Save
>
> In the dir refereed to in "Directory" ( /var/www/cgi-bin ), create a file
> named .htaccess with the following content:
>
> vi /var/www/cgi-bin/.htaccess
>
> AuthUserFile /usr/local/rancid/.htpasswd
> AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> AuthName EnterPassword
> AuthType Basic
>
> require user <NAME OF THE USER YOU WANT TO Grant Access>
> ex:
> require user jdoe
>
> The last thing to do is to create the password file for the user
>
> htpasswd -c /usr/local/rancid/.htpasswd jdoe
> New password:
> Re-type new password:
> Adding password for user jdoe
>
> Restart httpd
>
> #service httpd restart
>
> It is not the perfect way, but now the truck hole is just a gap for a small
> car ;-)
>
> BR
> Gregers
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>
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