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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.

= head3 Parameters

=over 4

=item PerlSetVar AllowAlternateAuth

This attribute allows you to set an alternative method of authentication
(Basically, this allows you to mix authentication methods, if you don't have
 all users in the NIS database). It does this by returning a DECLINE and checking

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     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 can 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.

     Parameters
     
     PerlSetVar AllowAlternateAuth

     This attribute allows you to set an alternative method of authentication
     (Basically, this allows you to mix authentication methods, if you don't have
     all users in the NIS database). It does this by returning a DECLINE and checking
     for the next handler, which could be another authentication, such as