http auth & local user accounts question

question about using local user groups for authentication with http auth

[acabtp]

so here's the deal, i run a media server with a small user base (< 30 users). as of now, I have just been using samba and people get to the files via a mapped drive. i would now like to set up http access as well.

i am pretty well versed in apache stuff, and i poured over the doc pages for auth & authent and mod_auth at apache.org for a while, but i can't find an answer to this question: can I get apache to authenticate based upon the local users and groups directly? just to save time so i don't need to write a script to update names/passwords in multiple places.

thanks,
tom

[Jazeker]

If you are working on windows, you might try apache 1.3.x + mod_auth_ntlm. It used to do the trick for me.

[acabtp]

oh yeah, forgot to mention, running on RH9; figured that a unix would have been assumed running samba

[Jazeker]

there is also a an auth_mod_ntlm implementation for unix (you'll have to look for it on sourceforge.net)

[acabtp]

there is no windows domain associated with this, the unix port of modntlm [modntlm.sourceforge.net] doesn't help me