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Subject:    Re: [users@httpd] Authenticate users against a Microsoft SQL (odbc
From:       Nicolas Michel <nicolas.michel () lemail ! be>
Date:       2010-12-23 7:41:50
Message-ID: 4D12FD3E.3010101 () lemail ! be
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On 12/23/2010 02:58 AM, Tom Donovan wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 9:38 AM, Nicolas Michel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup an apache authentication using a user list (and
>> password) that resides in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
>>
>> I read these docs :
>> http://www.freetds.org/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm
>> http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/FreeTDS.html
>> http://code.google.com/p/odbc-dbd/downloads/list
>> http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm
>> http://people.apache.org/~niq/dbd.html
>>
>> Facts :
>> I have a Microsoft SQL Server 2000, installed and configured odbc on a
>> Debian Lenny (so my DB is declared in /etc/odbc.ini and driver
>> in /etc/odbcinst.ini)
>> I get a working connection to the MSSQL in the linux shell with
>> isql DSN user pass
>> and I'm able to make selects on my DB.
>>
>> But I don't succeed to use it in apache. When specifying DBDriver odbc
>> in my apache config file, starting apache log an error (the driver odbc
>> is not found).
>>
>> I also tried to compile apache following these instructions :
>> http://code.google.com/p/odbc-dbd/wiki/Linux
>> but it didn't work.
>>
>> Can you help me? Giving me some tips or tutos?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>
> The Debian-5 (Lenny) apache2 package is Apache-2.2.9 from back in 2008,
> which was before Apache
> included the ODBC driver.
>
> Your problem seems to be that the libaprutil1 package (Apache Portable
> Runtime Utilities) supplied
> by Debian-5 only contains built-in DBD drivers for PostgreSQL, SQLite3,
> and MySQL. It cannot load
> DBD drivers dynamically from an .so file, so it can't load the ODBC driver.
>
> You can rebuild libaprutil1 from the Debian source code to fix this. You
> must add a definition
> (-DAPR_DSO_BUILD=APR_HAS_DSO) which allows .so files to be loaded; then
> install the new .deb files
> to update libaprutil1 on your system. Make sure Apache is stopped when
> you do this and that your system is backed-up! You will need to watch
> for updates to the Debian-5 libaprutil1 package, and repeat these steps
> whenever libaprutil1 is updated.
>
> The steps are:
>
> sudo apt-get build-deps libaprutil1
> CFLAGS=-DAPR_DSO_BUILD=APR_HAS_DSO apt-get -b source libaprutil1
> sudo dpkg --install libaprutil1*.deb
>
> Second, since Apache didn't contain an ODBC/DBD driver in version 2.2.9
> - download odbc-dbd from GoogleCode and build it with these steps:
>
> wget http://odbc-dbd.googlecode.com/files/odbc-dbd-1.0.10.tar.gz
> tar -xzf odbc-dbd-1.0.10.tar.gz
> cd odbc-dbd-1.0.10
> ./configure --with-apr=/usr
> make
> sudo make install
>
> Next, enable DBD and DBD authentication in Apache:
>
> sudo a2enmod dbd
> sudo a2enmod authn_dbd
>
> Create a file: /etc/apache2/conf.d/authentication (as root) which
> configures the DBD driver and specifies an SQL query to authenticate
> users for certain directories. You will need to change this example to
> match your own datasource, the tables in your database, and the
> directories that you want to protect:
>
> <IfModule dbd_module>
> DBDriver "odbc"
> DBDParams "DATASOURCE=myDSN,USER=myDSNUsername,PASSWORD=myDSNPassword"
> </IfModule>
>
> <IfModule authn_dbd_module>
> <Directory /var/www/secret>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Restricted Files"
> AuthBasicProvider dbd
> Require valid-user
> AuthDBDUserPWQuery "SELECT myPasswordField from myUsersTable WHERE
> myUsernameField = ?"
> </Directory>
> </IfModule>
>
> Now - restart Apache:
>
> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>
> Note that you don't store clear text passwords in the database; you must
> store encrypted passwords. For example: if user 'fred' has password
> 'flintstone' - your SQL query should not return
> 'flintstone'. It should return an encrypted string, like:
> '{SHA}6WLN5wU+7RIPkozRjljr0xvndUM='.
>
> There is info about how to create these encrypted password strings at:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/password_encryptions.html
>
> Also note that the SQL statement uses the standard ? for the username
> parameter. Later versions of APR changed this - so you may need to
> change your SQL to use %s instead of ? when your system is updated to a
> later APR version.
>
> I hope this helps,
> -tom-
>
>
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Thank you very very much! I'll test it and will give you a feedback ;)

Best regards,

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