<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- $LastChangedRevision$ -->
<!--
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
<modulesynopsis metafile="mod_authz_user.xml.meta">
<name>mod_authz_user</name>
<description>User Authorization</description>
<status>Base</status>
<identifier>authz_user_module</identifier>
<summary>
<p>This module provides authorization capabilities so that
authenticated users can be allowed or denied access to portions
of the web site. <module>mod_authz_user</module> grants
access if the authenticated user is listed in a <code>Require user</code>
directive. Alternatively <code>Require valid-user</code> can be used to
grant access to all successfully authenticated users.</p>
</summary>
<seealso><directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive></seealso>
<section id="requiredirectives"><title>The Require Directives</title>
<p>Apache's <directive module="mod_authz_core">Require</directive>
directives are used during the authorization phase to ensure that
a user is allowed to access a resource. mod_authz_user extends the
authorization types with <code>user</code> and <code>valid-user</code>.
</p>
within the user require directives.</p>
<section id="requser"><title>Require user</title>
<p>This directive specifies a list of users that are allowed to gain
access.</p>
<highlight language="config">
Require user john paul george ringo
</highlight>
</section>
<section id="reqvaliduser"><title>Require valid-user</title>
<p>When this directive is specified, any successfully authenticated
user will be allowed to gain access.</p>
<highlight language="config">
Require valid-user
</highlight>
</section>
</section>
</modulesynopsis>