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	    }
	}
    }
    
    $r->note_basic_auth_failure;
    MP2 ? $r->log_error("Apache::AuthzNIS - user $name: not authorized", $r->uri) : $r->log_reason("Apache::AuthzNIS - user $name: not authorized", $r->uri);
    return MP2 ? Apache::HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED : Apache::Constants::HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED;
}

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__END__

=head1 NAME

Apache::AuthzNIS - mod_perl NIS Group Authorization module

=head1 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.

= head1 DESCRIPTION

This perl module is designed to work with mod_perl, the Net::NIS module by
Rik Haris (B<rik.harris@fulcrum.com.au>), and the Apache::AuthenNIS module
by Demetrios E. Paneras (B<dep@media.mit.edu>).  It is a direct adaptation
(i.e. I modified the code) of Michael Parker's (B<parker@austx.tandem.com>)
Apache::AuthenSmb module (which also included an authorization routine).

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

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

= head2 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 B<require user> and B<require valid-user>
directives.  In the NIS context I consider B<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 B<require group> directive.  This process may
be handled by B<Apache::AuthzNIS>.

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

=head1 AUTHOR

Demetrios E. Paneras <dep@media.mit.edu>
Ported by Shannon Eric Peevey <speeves@unt.edu>

=head1 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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