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.\" This file is part of Vmod-basicauth -*- nroff -*-
.\" Copyright (C) 2013 Sergey Poznyakoff
.\"
.\" Vmod-basicauth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
.\" any later version.
.\"
.\" Vmod-basicauth is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with vmod-basicauth.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.TH VMOD-BASICAUTH 1 "July 8, 2013" "VMOD-BASICAUTH" "User Reference"
.SH NAME
vmod-basicauth \- Basic HTTP authentication
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B import basicauth;

.BI "BOOL basicauth.match(STRING " passfile ", STRING " authstr );
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B vmod-basicauth
module implements basic HTTP authentication against the password file
created using the
.BR htpasswd (1)
command.
.PP
Four kinds of password hashes are supported:
Apache MD5 (\fB$apr1$\fR),
.BR crypt (3),
.BR SHA1 ,
and plaintext.
.PP
The \fBmatch\fR function returns \fBTRUE\fR or \fBFALSE\fR depending on
whether the authentication succeeds or not.  The \fIpassfile\fR argument
supplies the name of the password file to use.  The \fIauthstr\fR argument
is the authentication string (normally, the value of the
\fBAuthorization\fR HTTP header.
.PP
.SS Example
.PP
.EX
if (!basicauth.match("/var/www/.htpasswd", req.http.Authorization)) {
    error 401 "Restricted";
}
.EE
.\" The MANCGI variable is set by man.cgi script on Ulysses.
.\" The download.inc file contains the default DOWNLOAD section
.\" for man-based doc pages.
.if "\V[MANCGI]"WEBDOC" \{\
.	ds package vmod-basicauth
.	ds version 1.2
.	so download.inc
\}
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR vcl (7),
.BR varnishd (1).
.SH AUTHORS
Sergey Poznyakoff
.SH "BUG REPORTS"
Report bugs to <gray@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2013 Sergey Poznyakoff
.br
.na
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
.ad
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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