Fake Basic Auth

[smallfish]

use ngx_lua for 401 auth example:
http://chenxiaoyu.org/2012/02/08/nginx-lua-401-auth.html

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smallfish http://chenxiaoyu.org


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Christian Felsing <pug+nginx at felsing.net>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to nginx and have following problem:
>
> Nginx should be used as a reverse proxy and configured for client
> certificate authentication. Backoffice application supports basic auth
> only.
> Apache 2.4 solution for that kind of problems is "Fake Basic Auth" so
> backoffice application gets a remote_user and password generated from
> client certificate presented by user.
>
> Example:
> AuthBasicFake %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN}
> %{sha1:passphrase-%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN}}
> This set remote user to CN from client certifiate.
>
> is there a similar mechanism in Nginx?
>
> Does HttpLuaModule allow to fake a 401 authentication?
>
> best regards
> Christian
>
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