One fine day one the project leader asked that he we to share files over internet to employees, he was looking for some auth system where only existing employee can login. Since we have hosted mail server & no auth system in office the convenient way we found was to use POP3 Auth.
Following is the configuration I am sharing to use pop3 auth for web site running over apache.
Install Auth mechanism.
Refer
cpan
install Apache::AuthPOP3
install Net::POP3
Apache configuration
httpd.conf ServerName userweb.linuxreaders.com DocumentRoot /home/userweb DirectoryIndex index.html PerlModule Apache::AuthDBI AuthName "Enter your Email ID & Password" AuthType Basic PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthPOP3 PerlSetVar MailHost pop.linuxreaders.com #PerlSetVar UserMap pop3user1=>realname1,pop3user2=>realname2 Require valid-user
