Murder Authentication Methods

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> Replace 'backend1' and 'backend2' with the actual name of your backend.
> Also, the user specified in 'proxy_authname' must be authenticable on
> the backend (by auxprop, most likely, since it connect with DIGEST-MD5).
>
> A question : is the 'proxy_authname' required to be admin on the
> backend?  Could it be just in proxyservers ?

Yes.  That's the idea, in fact.

However this causes some design headaches (regarding the treatment of
admin users).  Namely, top level creates need to be issued directly to the
appropriate backend.

-Rob

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