Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.14 Configuration File Reference

Example

A UNIX example:

AuthTrans fn=proxy-auth auth-type=basic  
	dbm=/usr/ns-home/proxy-EXAMPLE/userdb/rs
A Windows NT example:
AuthTrans fn=proxy-auth auth-type=basic userfile=\\netscape\\server
	\\proxy-EXAMPLE\\.htpasswd grpfile=\\netscape\\server
	\\proxy-EXAMPLE\\.grpfile

You can have a user-provided function perform authentication by passing the user-fn parameter to the proxy-auth function.

Syntax

AuthTrans fn=proxy-auth auth-type=basic    user-fn=your function     userdb=full path name

Parameters

The following table describes the parameter values for the user provided proxy-auth function.

Table 5–38 user provided proxy-auth parameter values


Value	Description
`user-fn`	Specifies the name of the user-provided function that to be used to perform authentication in place of the built-in authentication. If authentication succeeds, the function returns `REQ-PROCEED` and if authentication fails, it returns `REQ-NOACTION`.
`userdb`	Specifies the full path and base file name of the user database in the server’s native format. The native format is a system DBM file, which is a hashed file format allowing instantaneous access to large numbers of users.