authentication

Specify the key auth in a mount path.

sub key	meaning
type	Authentication method to be used
realm	String describing the secured area

Digest

Clients will have to authenticate like described in rfc2617. MD5 will be used as Hash.

Additional keys:

key	meaning
userfile	path to htdigest file

htdigest file

File containing a list of users with their password. Each line has the form user:realm:md5(username+":"+realm+":"+password).

It can be created using htdigest

$ sudo apt install apache2-utils
$ htdigest
Usage: htdigest [-c] passwordfile realm username
The -c flag creates a new file.
$ htdigest -c test_file "needs auth" test_user

Config

dir = "/var/www/"
auth = {type = "Digest", userfile = "./test_file", realm = "needs auth"}