1 This module provides the mod_auth_basic authentication front-end a way to
2 authenticate users by checking credentials via the Cyrus SASL library.
3 This may be interesting for setups where other daemons (e.g. for SMTP, IMAP
4 or LDAP) already running at a machine use SASL to authenticate users. The
5 module is also useful to authenticate users against databases that use shadow
6 passwords. You do not need to elevate Apache HTTPD's access rights to