<package name="pwauth" project="Apache:Modules">

  <title>A Unix Web Authenticator</title>

  <description>Pwauth is an authenticator designed to be used with mod_auth_external or

mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP Daemon to support reasonably secure web

authentication out of the system password database on most versions of Unix. 

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What pwauth actually does is very simple. Given a login and a password, it

returns a status code indicating whether it is a valid login/password or not.

It is normally installed as an suid-root program, so other programs (like

Apache or a CGI program) can run it to check if a login/password is valid even

though they don't themselves have read access to the system password database.

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Authors:

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    Jan Wolter

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</package>

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