Use the system users and groups for web authentication? Via PAM? Why is a simple thing so awkward and not directly supported by Apache?
Here is a critical essay describing PAM authentication via
mod_authnz_external
and
pwauth.
One has to compile pwauth on Ubuntu, though. I didn't test PAM but just went with /etc/shadow
.
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