Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:07:09AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:John Hasler wrote:Tom Allison writes:Can someone explain why Apache-Common requires MySQL to be installed?Ok, so it isn't the end of the world. But, why is mysql referenced in Apache? What is the function.Apache now contains a module to authenticate requests against a MySQL database (mod_auth_mysql).
This is not right. This is definitely the wrong way to go.I don't know of any other mod's that require their libraries to be installed as part of apache_common "just in case". Also, if you want something that does require a special case (like ssl) doesn't it come as a special deb package to begin with?
Personally, if I was going to be hitting a database for authentication, it would make a lot more sense to go with something like LDAP than MySQL.
But that's already included as a SEPERATE module libapache-auth-ldap.This approach with mod-auth-mysql is breaking ranks with the rest of the Apache methodology that is seen in Debian.
Is there something so specially unique about mod-auth-mysql that we can't make the same approach with MySQL that we did with LDAP?