README.APACHE2

First you have to compile the code in the "samba-shared" directory
like so:

cd samba-shared
make CFLAGS="-fPIC -O2"
cd ..

Then build and install the apache2 module.

NOTE: You will need to have the apache2 apxs binary in your path (with
read/execute rights!) to run the make commands.

cd apache2
[[ edit Makefile and fix paths in top_srcdir=, top_builddir= and
   include lines near the top of the file. You could also set the
   full paths in APXS and APACHECTL variables if apxs/apachectl are
   not in your PATH. You may also select the GDBM_PASSWD_CACHE option
   at this point by uncommenting the appropriate lines - this option
   enables the caching of passwords in a gdbm file to work around
   load problems on some systems. NOTE that it may be better to try
   other things rather than enable this option - for example,
   redesiging your web site to reduce authentication requests by
   the use of sessions. This option has not been tested extensively,
   and of course increases security risks because passwords are stored
   on disk in an extra place, even though they are encrypted. Also,
   nothing is ensuring that the password information is removed from
   the cache file when it times out - it will stay there forever, unless
   a failed request for that password occurs. In future, it may be
   better if this used a simple array in memory, since it doesn't
   appear to be essential that the information stay around between
   restarts (but it may be that memory is in short supply)]]
touch .deps
make depend
make	
make install 

Ignore the warning during the "make":

*** Warning: Linking the shared library mod_smbauth.la against the non-libtool
*** objects  ../samba-shared/md4.o ../samba-shared/rfcnb-io.o ../samba-shared/rfcnb-util.o ../samba-shared/session.o ../samba-shared/smbauth.o ../samba-shared/smbdes.o ../samba-shared/smbencrypt.o ../samba-shared/smblib-util.o ../samba-shared/smblib.o ../samba-shared/valid.o is not portable!

Restart apache by "make restart|stop|start" or by other means.

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If you get something like the following on make or make install:

...
/bin/sh: apxs: command not found
...

then apxs is not in your path, or you are not root.
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See the file "apache2/example-config" for some (untested) examples of
using the configuration directives.

Please contact me with any suggestions <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au> - but you're
probably better off contacting the original author <shire@tekrat.com>.