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<name>mod_authz_core</name>

<description>Core Authorization</description>

<status>Base</status>

<sourcefile>mod_authz_core.c</sourcefile>

<identifier>authz_core_module</identifier>

<compatibility>Available in Apache 2.3 and later</compatibility>

<summary>

<p>This module provides core authorization capabilities so that

authenticated users can be allowed or denied access to portions

of the web site. <module>mod_authz_core</module> provides the

functionality to register various authorization providers. It is

usually used in conjunction with an authentication

provider module such as <module>mod_authn_file</module> and an

authorization module such as <module>mod_authz_user</module>. It

also allows for advanced logic to be applied to the

authorization processing.</p>

</summary>

<section id="authzalias"><title>Creating Authorization Provider Aliases</title>

<p>Extended authorization providers can be created within the configuration

file and assigned an alias name. The alias providers can then be referenced

through the <directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive> and

<directive module="mod_authz_core">Match</directive> directives

in the same way as a base authorization provider. Besides the ability to

create and alias an extended provider, it also allows the same extended

authorization provider to be reference by multiple locations.

</p>

<section id="example"><title>Example</title>

<p>The example below creates two different ldap authorization provider

aliases based on the ldap-group authorization provider. This example

allows a single authorization location to check group membership within

multiple ldap hosts:

</p>

<example><title>Example</title>

&lt;AuthzProviderAlias ldap-group ldap-group-alias1 cn=my-group,o=ctx&gt;<br />

<indent>

AuthLDAPBindDN cn=youruser,o=ctx<br />

AuthLDAPBindPassword yourpassword<br />

AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldap.host/o=ctx<br />

</indent>

&lt;/AuthzProviderAlias&gt;<br /><br />

&lt;AuthnProviderAlias ldap-group ldap-group-alias2

cn=my-other-group,o=dev&gt;<br />

<indent>

AuthLDAPBindDN cn=yourotheruser,o=dev<br />

AuthLDAPBindPassword yourotherpassword<br />

AuthLDAPURL ldap://other.ldap.host/o=dev?cn<br />

</indent>

&lt;/AuthzProviderAlias&gt;<br /><br />

Alias /secure /webpages/secure<br />

&lt;Directory /webpages/secure&gt;<br />

<indent>

Order deny,allow<br />

Allow from all<br /><br />

AuthBasicProvider file<br /><br />

AuthType Basic<br />

AuthName LDAP_Protected_Place<br /><br />

#implied OR operation<br />

Require alias1-ldap-group<br />

Require alias2-ldap-group<br />

</indent> &lt;/Directory&gt;<br />

</example>

</section>

</section>

<section id="logic"><title>Authorization Containers</title>

<p>The authorization container directives

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAll</directive>,

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAny</directive>,

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchNotAll</directive>

and

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchNotAny</directive>

may be combined with each other and with the

<directive module="mod_authz_core">Match</directive>

directive to express complex authorization logic.</p>

<p>The example below expresses the following authorization logic.

In order to access the resource, the user must either be the

<code>superadmin</code> user, or belong to both the

<code>admins</code> group and the <code>Administrators</code> LDAP

group and either belong to the <code>sales</code> group or

have the LDAP <code>dept</code> attribute <code>sales</code>.

Furthermore, in order to access the resource, the user must

not belong to either the <code>temps</code> group or the

LDAP group <code>Temporary Employees</code>.</p>

<example>

&lt;Directory /www/mydocs&gt;

<indent>

&lt;MatchAny&gt;

<indent>

Match user superadmin<br />

&lt;MatchAll&gt;

<indent>

Match group admins<br />

Match ldap-group cn=Administrators,o=Airius<br />

&lt;MatchAny&gt;

<indent>

Match group sales<br />

Match ldap-attribute dept="sales"

</indent>

&lt;/MatchAny&gt;

</indent>

&lt;/MatchAll&gt;

</indent>

&lt;/MatchAny&gt;<br />

&lt;MatchNotAny&gt;

<indent>

Match group temps<br />

Match ldap-group cn=Temporary Employees,o=Airius

</indent>

&lt;/MatchNotAny&gt;

</indent>

&lt;/Directory&gt;

</example>

</section>

<directivesynopsis>

<name>Require</name>

<description>Tests whether an authenticated user is authorized by

an authorization provider.</description>

<syntax>Require <var>entity-name</var> [<var>entity-name</var>] ...</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p>This directive tests whether an authenticated user is authorized

according to a particular authorization provider and the specified

restrictions. Some of the allowed syntaxes provided by

<module>mod_authz_user</module> and

<module>mod_authz_groupfile</module> are:</p>

<dl>

<dt><code>Require user <var>userid</var> [<var>userid</var>]

...</code></dt>

<dd>Only the named users can access the resource.</dd>

<dt><code>Require group <var>group-name</var> [<var>group-name</var>]

...</code></dt>

<dd>Only users in the named groups can access the resource.</dd>

<dt><code>Require valid-user</code></dt>

<dd>All valid users can access the resource.</dd>

</dl>

<p>Other authorization modules that implement require options

include <module>mod_authnz_ldap</module>,

<module>mod_authz_dbm</module>, <module>mod_authz_dbd</module>,

<module>mod_authz_host</module>, and

<module>mod_authz_owner</module>.</p>

<p>For a complete authentication and authorization configuration,

<directive>Require</directive> must be accompanied by

<directive module="mod_authn_core">AuthName</directive>, <directive

module="mod_authn_core">AuthType</directive> and

<directive module="mod_auth_basic">AuthBasicProvider</directive>

directives, and directives such as

<directive module="mod_authn_file">AuthUserFile</directive>

and <directive module="mod_authz_groupfile">AuthGroupFile</directive> (to

define users and groups) in order to work correctly. Example:</p>

<example>

AuthType Basic<br />

AuthName "Restricted Resource"<br />

AuthBasicProvider file<br />

AuthUserFile /web/users<br />

AuthGroupFile /web/groups<br />

Require group admin

</example>

<p>Access controls which are applied in this way are effective for

<strong>all</strong> methods. <strong>This is what is normally

desired.</strong> If you wish to apply access controls only to

specific methods, while leaving other methods unprotected, then

place the <directive>Require</directive> statement into a

<directive module="core" type="section">Limit</directive>

section.</p>

<p>When multiple <directive>Require</directive> directives are

used in a single

<a href="/sections.html#mergin">configuration section</a>,

the first one to authorize a user authorizes the entire request,

and subsequent <directive>Require</directive> directives are

ignored. In other words, all <directive>Require</directive> directives

are enclosed in an implied <directive module="mod_authz_core"

type="section">MatchAny</directive> directive.</p>

<note><directive>Require</directive> directives may not be combined

with the <directive module="mod_authz_core">Match</directive> directive

or any authorization container directives, such as

<directive module="mod_authz_core"

type="section">MatchAll</directive>.</note>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

<seealso><module>mod_authn_core</module></seealso>

<seealso><module>mod_authz_host</module></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis>

<name>Match</name>

<description>Tests whether an authenticated user is authorized by

an authorization provider.</description>

<syntax>Match [not] <var>entity-name</var>

[<var>entity-name</var>] ...</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p>This directive is similar to the

<directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive> directive;

it tests whether an authenticated user is authorized according to

a particular authorization provider and the specified restrictions.</p>

<p>Unlike the <directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive>

directive, it may be used with and inside authorization container

directives such as

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAll</directive>.</p>

<p>Furthermore, its result may be negated through the use of the

<code>not</code> option. As with other negated authorization directives,

in this case the <directive>Match</directive> directive may only

either fail or return a neutral result, and can therefore never

independently authorize a request.</p>

<p>In the following example, all users in the <code>alpha</code>

and <code>beta</code> groups are authorized, except for those who

are also in the <code>reject</code> group.</p>

<example>

&lt;Directory /www/docs&gt;

<indent>

Match group alpha beta<br />

Match not group reject

</indent>

&lt;/Directory&gt;

</example>

<p>When multiple <directive>Match</directive> directives are

used in a single

<a href="/sections.html#mergin">configuration section</a>

and are not contained in another authorization directive like

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAny</directive>,

they are implicitly contained within a

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAll</directive>

directive. Thus for the user to be authorized, all such

<directive>Match</directive> directives must not fail, and

at least one must be successful.</p>

<note><directive>Match</directive> directives may not be combined

with the <directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive>

directive.</note>

</usage>

<seealso><directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive></seealso>

<seealso><a href="#logic">Authorization Containers</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis type="section">

<name>MatchAll</name>

<description>Enclose a group of authorization directives of which none

must fail and at least one must succeed for the enclosing directive to

succeed.</description>

<syntax>&lt;MatchAll&gt;

... &lt;/MatchAll&gt;</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p><directive type="section">MatchAll</directive> and

<code>&lt;/MatchAll&gt;</code> are used to enclose a group of

authorization directives of which none must fail and at least one

must succeed in order for

the <directive type="section">MatchAll</directive> directive to

succeed.</p>

<p>If none of the directives contained within the

<directive type="section">MatchAll</directive> directive fails,

and at least one succeeds, then the

<directive type="section">MatchAll</directive> directive

succeeds. If none succeed and none fail, then it returns a

neutral result. In all other cases, it fails.</p>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="#logic">Authorization Containers</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis type="section">

<name>MatchAny</name>

<description>Enclose a group of authorization directives of which one

must succeed for the enclosing directive to succeed.</description>

<syntax>&lt;MatchAny&gt;

... &lt;/MatchAny&gt;</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p><directive type="section">MatchAny</directive> and

<code>&lt;/MatchAny&gt;</code> are used to enclose a group of

authorization directives of which one must succeed in order for

the <directive type="section">MatchAny</directive> directive to

succeed.</p>

<p>If one or more of the directives contained within the

<directive type="section">MatchAny</directive> directive succeed,

then the <directive type="section">MatchAny</directive> directive

succeeds. If none succeed and none fail, then it returns a

neutral result. In all other cases, it fails.</p>

<note>Because negated authorization directives are unable to

return a successful result, they can not significantly influence

the result of a <directive type="section">MatchAny</directive>

directive. (At most they could cause the directive to fail in

the case where they failed and all other directives returned a

neutral value.) Therefore negated authorization directives

are not permitted within a <directive type="section">MatchAny</directive>

directive.</note>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="#logic">Authorization Containers</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis type="section">

<name>MatchNotAll</name>

<description>Enclose a group of authorization directives of which some

must fail or none must succeed for the enclosing directive to

not fail.</description>

<syntax>&lt;MatchNotAll&gt;

... &lt;/MatchNotAll&gt;</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p><directive type="section">MatchNotAll</directive> and

<code>&lt;/MatchNotAll&gt;</code> are used to enclose a group of

authorization directives of which some must fail or none must succeed

in order for the

<directive type="section">MatchNotAll</directive> directive to

not fail.</p>

<p>If none of the directives contained within the

<directive type="section">MatchNotAll</directive> directive

fail, and one or more succeed, then the

<directive type="section">MatchNotAll</directive> directive fails.

In all other cases, it returns a neutral result. Thus as with

the other negated authorization directives, it can never independently

authorize a request because it can never return a successful result.

It can be used, however, to restrict the set of users who are

authorized to access a resource.</p>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="#logic">Authorization Containers</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis type="section">

<name>MatchNotAny</name>

<description>Enclose a group of authorization directives of which none

none must succeed for the enclosing directive to not fail.</description>

<syntax>&lt;MatchNotAny&gt;

... &lt;/MatchNotAny&gt;</syntax>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p><directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive> and

<code>&lt;/MatchNotAny&gt;</code> are used to enclose a group of

authorization directives of which none must succeed

in order for the

<directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive> directive to

not fail.</p>

<p>If one or more of the directives contained within the

<directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive> directive succeed,

then the <directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive> directive

fails. In all other cases, it returns a neutral result. Thus as with

the other negated authorization directives, it can never independently

authorize a request because it can never return a successful result.

It can be used, however, to restrict the set of users who are

authorized to access a resource.</p>

<note>Because negated authorization directives are unable to

return a successful result, they can not significantly influence

the result of a <directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive>

directive. Therefore negated authorization directives

are not permitted within a

<directive type="section">MatchNotAny</directive> directive.</note>

</usage>

<seealso><a href="#logic">Authorization Containers</a></seealso>

<seealso><a href="/howto/auth.html">Authentication, Authorization,

and Access Control</a></seealso>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis>

<name>MergeAuthz</name>

<description>Controls the manner in which each configuration section's

authorization logic is combined with that of preceding configuration

sections.</description>

<syntax>MergeAuthz Off | MatchAll | MatchAny</syntax>

<default>MergeAuthz Off</default>

<contextlist><context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context>

</contextlist>

<override>AuthConfig</override>

<usage>

<p>When authorization is enabled, it is normally inherited by each

subsequent <a href="/sections.html#mergin">configuration section</a>,

unless a different set of authorization directives are specified.

This is the default action, which corresponds to an explicit setting

of <code>MergeAuthz Off</code>.</p>

<p>However, there may be circumstances in which is it desirable

for a configuration section's authorization to be combined with

that of its predecessor while configuration sections are being

merged. Two options are available for this case, <code>MatchAll</code>

and <code>MatchAny</code>.</p>

<p>When a configuration section contains <code>AuthzMerge MatchAll</code>

or <code>AuthzMerge MatchAny</code>,

its authorization logic is combined with that of the nearest

predecessor (according to the overall order of configuration sections)

which also contains authorization logic as if the two sections

were jointly contained within a

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAll</directive> or

<directive module="mod_authz_core" type="section">MatchAny</directive>

directive, respectively.</p>

<note>The setting of <directive>AuthzMerge</directive> is not

inherited outside of the configuration section in which it appears.

In the following example, only users belonging to group <code>alpha</code>

may access <code>/www/docs</code>. Users belonging to either

groups <code>alpha</code> or <code>beta</code> may access

<code>/www/docs/ab</code>. However, the default <code>Off</code>

setting of <directive>AuthzMerge</directive> applies to the

<directive type="section" module="core">Directory</directive>

configuration section for <code>/www/docs/ab/gamma</code>, so

that section's authorization directives override those of the

preceding sections. Thus only users belong to the group

<code>gamma</code> may access <code>/www/docs/ab/gamma</code>.</note>

<example>

&lt;Directory /www/docs&gt;

<indent>

AuthType Basic<br />

AuthName Documents<br />

AuthBasicProvider file<br />

AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords<br />

Match group alpha

</indent>

&lt;/Directory&gt;<br />

<br />

&lt;Directory /www/docs/ab&gt;

<indent>

AuthzMerge MatchAny<br />

Match group beta

</indent>

&lt;/Directory&gt;<br />

<br />

&lt;Directory /www/docs/ab/gamma&gt;

<indent>

Match group gamma

</indent>

&lt;/Directory&gt;

</example>

</usage>

</directivesynopsis>

<directivesynopsis type="section">

<name>AuthzProviderAlias</name>

<description>Enclose a group of directives that represent an

extension of a base authorization provider and referenced by the specified

alias</description>

<syntax>&lt;AuthzProviderAlias <var>baseProvider Alias Require-Parameters</var>&gt;

... &lt;/AuthzProviderAlias&gt;

</syntax>

<contextlist><context>server config</context>

</contextlist>

<usage>

<p><directive type="section">AuthzProviderAlias</directive> and

<code>&lt;/AuthzProviderAlias&gt;</code> are used to enclose a group of

authorization directives that can be referenced by the alias name using the

directive <directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive>.</p>

</usage>

</directivesynopsis>

</modulesynopsis>