[freeside] Authorization Question

[Jason]

i understand how the .htaccess works, but what i am curious about comes from
this page of the documentation.

http://www.sisd.com/freeside/docs/config.html

the third option down, "which maps Apache users to a file which contains DBI
data source, username and password.  Every line in
/usr/local/etc/freeside/mapsecrets shold contain a username and a "filename"
seperated by whitespace"

that is what is confusing me, because i thought if i use htpassword to
create/modify my mapsecrets file, then it would be username/password not
username/filename  so if i create my mapsecrets file with username/password
then where does the file with the datasource/user/pass come in?


maybe that explains my confusion a little better :)  thanx for helping so
far:)

jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Hudes" <dhudes at hudes.org>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Authorization Question


> I don't know what you're thinking of but you specified "mapsecrets"
> as the file containing your apache authorization information.
> so feed that to htpasswd
>
> Please read the information on apache and access control from mod_auth and
> htpasswd then come back with questions on what you have read.
> To do otherwise is somewhat inconsiderate.
>
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Jason wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:56:49 -0400
> > From: Jason <jbrunk at whitetec.com>
> > Reply-To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> > To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> > Subject: Re: [freeside] Authorization Question
> >
> > is the rest of my configuration correct though?
> >
> > when i create the authuserfile, do i add it into my .htaccess file?  how
does apache know to use the mapsecrets?
> >
> > jason
> >
> >     in my .htaccess file i have the following.
> >
> >     AuthName "restricted stuff"
> >     AuthType Basic
> >     AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/freeside/mapsecrets
> >     require valid-user
> >
> >     then in my mapsecrets i have
> >
> >     admin sec_admin
> >
> >     where admin is the user and sec_admin is the secrets file
> >
> >     then in my sec_admin file i have
> >
> >     DBI:mysql:freeside
> >     freeside
> >     free1
> >
> >
> >     where the first line is my connection string
> >     second is my dbusername
> >     third is dbpassword
> >
> >     so i guess what i am askig is, where do i assign the password for
the account admin?  do i have something messed up?
> >
> >     jason
> >
> >
>
>
>