NAME

Apache::AuthenSecurID - Authentication via a SecurID server

SYNOPSIS

# Configuration in httpd.conf or access.conf 

PerlModule Apache::AuthenSecurID

<Location /secure/directory> AuthName SecurID AuthType Basic

PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenSecurID

PerlSetVar AuthCryptKey Encryption_Key 
PerlSetVar AuthCookie Name_of_Authentication_Cookie 
PerlSetVar AuthUserCookie Name_of_Username_Authentication_Cookie 
PerlSetVar AuthCookiePath /path/of/authentication/cookie
PerlSetVar AuthCookieTimeOut 30 
PerlSetVar Auth_Handler /path/of/authentication/handler

require valid-user
</Location>

DESCRIPTION

This module allows authentication against a SecurID server. It detects whether a user has a valid encrypted cookie containing their username and last activity time stamp. If the cookie is valid the module will change the activity timestamp to the present time, encrypt and send the cookie. If the cookie is not valid the module will redirect to the authentication handler to prompt for username and passcode.

LIST OF TOKENS

• AuthCryptKey

  The Blowfish key used to encrypt and decrypt the authentication cookie. It defaults to my secret if this variable is not set.

• AuthCookie

  The name of the of cookie to be set for the authentication token. It defaults to SecurID if this variable is not set.

• AuthUserCookie

  The name of the of cookie that contains the value of the persons username in plain text. This is checked against the contents of the encrypted cookie to verify user. The cookie is set of other applications can identify authorized users. It defaults to SecurID_User if this variable is not set.

• AuthCookiePath

  The path of the of cookie to be set for the authentication token. It defaults to / if this variable is not set.

• AuthCookieTimeOut

  The time in minute a cookie is valid for. It is not recommended to set below 5. It defaults to 30 if this variable is not set.

• Auth_Handler

  The path of authentication handler. This is the URL which request with invalid cookie are redirected to. The handler will prompt for username and passcode. It does the actual authentication and sets the initial cookie. This mechanism is used instead of get_basic_auth_pw because get_basic_auth_pw will do multiple authentication attempt on pages that contain frames. The ACE server will deny simultaneous authentication attempts since it considers this a type of attack. It defaults to /ace_init if this variable is not set. Please see Apache::AuthenSecurID::Auth to properly configure this functionality.

CONFIGURATION

The module should be loaded upon startup of the Apache daemon. Add the following line to your httpd.conf:

PerlModule Apache::AuthenSecurID

PREREQUISITES

For AuthenSecurID you need to enable the appropriate call-back hook when making mod_perl:

perl Makefile.PL PERL_AUTHEN=1

AuthenSecurID requires Crypt::Blowfish and Crypt::CBC.

SEE ALSO

Apache, mod_perl, Authen::ACE Apache::AuthenSecurID::Auth

AUTHORS

• mod_perl by Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>

• Authen::ACE by Dave Carrigan <Dave.Carrigan@iplenergy.com>

• Apache::AuthenSecurID by David Berk <dberk@lump.org>

COPYRIGHT

The Apache::AuthenSecurID module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.