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# Apache Module mod_authz_user

Description: | User Authorization
Status: | Base
Module Identifier: | authz_user_module
Source File: | mod_authz_user.c

### Summary

This module provides authorization capabilities so that authenticated users can be allowed or denied access to portions of the web site. `mod_authz_user` grants access if the authenticated user is listed in a `Require user` directive. Alternatively `Require valid-user` can be used to grant access to all successfully authenticated users.

### Topics

- The Require Directives

### Directives

This module provides no directives.

### Bugfix checklist

- httpd changelog
- Known issues
- Report a bug

### See also

- `Require`

## The Require Directives ¶

Apache's `Require` directives are used during the authorization phase to ensure that a user is allowed to access a resource. mod_authz_user extends the authorization types with `user` and `valid-user`.

Since v2.4.8, expressions are supported within the user require directives.

### Require user

This directive specifies a list of users that are allowed to gain access.

    Require user john paul george ringo

### Require valid-user

When this directive is specified, any successfully authenticated user will be allowed to gain access.

    Require valid-user