DESCRIPTION

Simple authentication and authorization. The configuration specifies the name of a file that is the user register, which lists username:password pairs, one per line, colon separated. When a session begins, it is rejected unless username and passsword are supplied, and match a pair in the register.

### discuss authorization phase

EXAMPLES

A typical configuration looks like this:

    <filter type="auth_simple">
     <userRegister>../etc/example.simple-auth</userRegister>
     <targetRegister>../etc/example.target-auth</targetRegister>
     <discardUnauthorisedTargets/>
    </filter>

   

### Show and describe example.target-auth

SEE ALSO

metaproxy(1)

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