Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc passwords: Apache authentication

[Steve W. <swa...@ls...>]

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 01:50 AM, cba...@us... 
wrote:
> Johan Blignaut writes:
>> I have recently installed Backuppc with the Linbox Backup Server 
>> distro.
>> The web interface allows me to log into Backuppc with a password 
>> which I
>> think is authenticated by Apache. How do I change this password? How 
>> do
>> I add users and their passwords? I can add users by editing the
>> /etc/backuppc/htpasswd file and allow them to log on, but they do not
>> have passwords - a situation that I do not want to use into a 
>> production
>> server.
>
> The format of the /etc/backuppc/htpasswd file is
>
>     userName1:encrypedPasswd1
>     userName2:encrypedPasswd2
>     userName3:encrypedPasswd3
>
> You should use the htpasswd command for adding username/password
> pairs to the /etc/backuppc/htpasswd file.  Do "man htpasswd".
>
> Craig

Or if your company has an LDAP server setup, you might want to add 
mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap to your Apache server. This will allow the 
Apache server to use the same password as other services on the 
network. Since BackupPC restricts a user to only see the backups for 
hosts that they are the configured as the owner, you can allow anyone 
to authenticate to the web server and then BackupPC will handle the 
authorization. This is how I setup my BackupPC server, and it's kind of 
nice to be able to say, "If you have any problems with your password, 
contact IT for help with your LDAP password. I have no control of the 
password database for this server." :-)

Steve