NAME
    Apache::AuthzNIS - mod_perl NIS Group Authorization module

SYNOPSIS
        <Directory /foo/bar>
        # This is the standard authentication stuff
        AuthName "Foo Bar Authentication"
        AuthType Basic

        # The following is actually only needed when you will authenticate
        # via NIS passwd as well as authorize via NIS group.
        # Apache::AuthenNIS is a separate module.
        PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenNIS

        # Standard require stuff, NIS users or groups, and
        # "valid-user" all work OK
        require user username1 username2 ...
        require group groupname1 groupname2 ...
        require valid-user

        PerlAuthzHandler Apache::AuthzNIS

        </Directory>

        These directives can also be used in the <Location> directive or in
        an .htaccess file.


DESCRIPTION
    This perl module is designed to work with mod_perl, the
    Net::NIS module by Rik Haris ([email protected]),
    and the Apache::AuthenNIS module by Demetrios E. Paneras
    ([email protected]).  It is a direct adaptation (i.e. I
    modified the code) of Michael Parker's
    ([email protected]) Apache::AuthenSmb module (which
    also included an authorization routine).

    The module calls Net::NIS::yp_match using each of the
    require group elements as keys to the the group.byname map,
    until a match with the (already authenticated) user is
    found.

    For completeness, the module also handles require user and
    require valid-user directives.

    Apache::AuthenNIS vs. Apache::AuthzNIS

    I've taken "authentication" to be meaningful only in terms
    of a user and password combination, not group membership.
    This means that you can use Apache::AuthenNIS with the
    require user and require valid-user directives.  In the NIS
    context I consider require group to be an "authorization"
    concern.  I.e., Group authorization consists of establishing
    whether the already authenticated user is a member of one of
    the indicated groups in the require group directive.  This
    process may be handled by Apache::AuthzNIS.

    I welcome any feedback on this module, esp. code
    improvements, given that it was written hastily, to say the
    least.

AUTHOR
    Demetrios E. Paneras <[email protected]>
    Ported by Shannon Eric Peevey <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1998 Demetrios E. Paneras, MIT Media
    Laboratory.

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it
    and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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