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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic |
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> HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an |
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> SSL Client Certificate? |
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> I'd like to prevent access to an ancient web based database to only users |
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> that have a Client Cert that I created for them installed. |
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> Is this possible? I'd also like to provide for IP based exceptions if |
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> possible, but if I can't do both, I'll just install the Cert for everyone. |
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Two ways (that I know of) to do this: |
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1) Configure a front-end proxy like squid to do it. |
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2) Configure Apache to do it. |
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I haven't done it myself, though, and I hear the error messages the |
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OpenSSL libraries give you are cryptic. |
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