Apache Access Control: How to make Apache ask for username/pw again ?

When using the Apache Access Control a pop-up window appares. After entering
the username and password the first time the user is never again asked to
enter it.

What if another user want to log on from the same terminal, how do I trigger
Apache Server to ask for username again ?

The only way I know of that will make apache ask for username again is to
close down the browser and start it up again. But there has to be a better
way to do this ?

I have tried to clear the server variables PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW
but the old values return as soon as the next script has started to execute.
The clearing
of the variables only last as long as the script responsible for the
clearing is executing.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:52:53 +0100, "Magne Josefsen"
<magne.josefsen@dreng.no> wrote:

>When using the Apache Access Control a pop-up window appares. After entering
>the username and password the first time the user is never again asked to
>enter it.
>
>What if another user want to log on from the same terminal, how do I trigger
>Apache Server to ask for username again ?
>
>The only way I know of that will make apache ask for username again is to
>close down the browser and start it up again. But there has to be a better
> way to do this ?
>
>I have tried to clear the server variables PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW
>but the old values return as soon as the next script has started to execute.
>The clearing
>of the variables only last as long as the script responsible for the
>clearing is executing.

Standard HTTP authentication has no explicit logoff function.
The authentication is cleared when the browser program is
stopped and started again. As far as i know there is not much
you can do from the server side.

Maybe you can force another username/password dialog by forcing
the browser to address another "realm" on your site as result of
the (first) user clicking some "logoff" hyperlink. Or to another
virtual host on the same server.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html says something
about this, but i never tried this.

Good luck with your experiments,

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) Kees Nuyt
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