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Asked: 2026-06-03T18:05:20+00:00

Can I have two AuthUserFile directives in an apache2/sites-enabled/000-default configuration file? <Location /repo/trac> AuthType

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Can I have two AuthUserFile directives in an apache2/sites-enabled/000-default configuration file?

    <Location /repo/trac>
      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "Trac"
      AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passfile1
      AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passfile2
      Require valid-user
    </Location>

I want username/password for two types of users.

  • DEV – can access SVN and Trac
  • NOM – can only access Trac

I have two options: keep separate password files for Trac and Svn and include them separately, or have 2 password files in 1 I put DEV in other NOM and include only 1 for svn and include two under trac location.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should move everything into a single password file and then use groups to control access to particular resources. You can create /etc/apache2/groups with contents along the lines of:

    DEV: bob alice
NOM: norm fred bart

    And then modify your configuration so it looks like this:

    <Location /repo/trac>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Trac"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passfile
  AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/groups
  Require group DEV NOM
</Location>

    This would allow members of the DEV and NOM groups to access this resource.

    If you really want to use multiple password files, see the documentation for mod_authn_alias, which has an example that does exactly this.

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