mod_auth_anydb

If you don't use one of the common databases like MySQL or Postgres, you may want to utilize one of the database abstraction interfaces for database based user authentication:

• dbx_
• ADOdb
• PEAR::DB

To use it you must first get one of these wrappers (PEAR is usually part of PHP, and the dbx is a compile-time PHP extension).

The AnydbLoadInterface (to include the PEAR::DB or ADOdb wrapper - not dbx!) must be given before the A HREF="core.html#loadmodule">LoadModule directive of mod_auth_anydb.php!

The database to be used is specifed in a DSN-like syntax using the directive

 AuthAnydb = database://dbuser:password@dbserver.example.com/dbname/table

When you specify the database to search authentication data (user/login names and their passwords) for, you must use the database abbreviation your database abstraction layer is using (PEAR, ADO, dbx). In their current versions, there are:

PHP dbx	mysql, odbc, pgsql, mssql, fbsql, sybase_ct, oci8
PEAR::DB	fbsql, ibase, ifx, msql, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, pgsql, storage, sybase
ADOdb	access, ado, ado_access, ado_mysql, db2, vfp, fbsql, ibase, firebird, borland_ibase, informix, informix72, mssql, mssqlpo, mysql, mysqlt, maxsql, oci8, oci8po, oci805, odbc, odbc_mssql, odbc_oracle, oracle, postgres, postgres64, postgres7, sqlanywhere, sybase

You should however have a look at the documentation of your db abstraction layer.

The password column can be either the plain or the crypt() or md5() encoded string. You do not need to give the encoding type, because this is auto-probed.

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