> * From: "Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>
> the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not available in etch
> (and, this being a production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a solution?
I have _not_ tried this, but etch has both libapache2-mod-auth-pam and
libpam-mysql which, when used together, should give this functionality.
I looked into that, and, while it may provide the same functionality with a lot of tweaking of my config and htaccess files, I decided to try compiling the auth_mysql module. Following the instructions to do that at
http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/ApacheMySQLAuthentication I was able to get it (sort of) running. I also had to follow the advice at
http://www.pitr.net/index.php/2007/08/08/internal-error-pcfg_openfile-called-with-null-filename/ because, on first try, I was getting the error that provides a fix for. The (sort of) remains, though, because I get an access denied error from the MySQL server, but I'm pretty sure that's a local problem which I'm going to have to get someone else to help me fix. But I'm happy, at least, to have auth_mysql functioning on an etch system. (I was a bit amazed to find that it had been orphaned!)
Patrick