diff --git a/bin/swift-proxy-server b/bin/swift-proxy-server
index d1d19677ef..0ba14e2357 100755
--- a/bin/swift-proxy-server
+++ b/bin/swift-proxy-server
@@ -30,10 +30,15 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         print "Unable to read config file."
         sys.exit(1)
     conf = dict(c.items('proxy-server'))
+    if c.has_section('auth-server'):
+        auth_conf = dict(c.items('auth-server'))
+    else:
+        auth_conf = {}
     swift_dir = conf.get('swift_dir', '/etc/swift')
-    c = ConfigParser()
-    c.read(os.path.join(swift_dir, 'auth-server.conf'))
-    auth_conf = dict(c.items('auth-server'))
+    m, c = auth_conf.get('class',
+                         'swift.common.auth.DevAuthMiddleware').rsplit('.', 1)
+    m = __import__(m, fromlist=[c])
+    authware = m.__dict__[c]
 
     memcache = MemcacheRing([s.strip() for s in
         conf.get('memcache_servers', '127.0.0.1:11211').split(',')
@@ -41,5 +46,5 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     logger = get_logger(conf, 'proxy')
     app = Application(conf, memcache, logger)
     # Wrap the app with auth
-    app = DevAuthMiddleware(app, auth_conf, memcache, logger)
+    app = authware(app, auth_conf, memcache, logger)
     run_wsgi(app, conf, logger=logger, default_port=80)
diff --git a/etc/proxy-server.conf-sample b/etc/proxy-server.conf-sample
index 7b9fb99d74..b938e5fdec 100644
--- a/etc/proxy-server.conf-sample
+++ b/etc/proxy-server.conf-sample
@@ -33,3 +33,9 @@
 # rate_limit_account_whitelist = acct1,acct2,etc
 # rate_limit_account_blacklist = acct3,acct4,etc
 # container_put_lock_timeout = 5
+
+# [auth-server]
+# class = swift.common.auth.DevAuthMiddleware
+# ip = 127.0.0.1
+# port = 11000
+# node_timeout = 10
diff --git a/swift/common/auth.py b/swift/common/auth.py
index 1e7be05da3..6e70f29b31 100644
--- a/swift/common/auth.py
+++ b/swift/common/auth.py
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ class DevAuthMiddleware(object):
         self.memcache_client = memcache_client
         self.logger = logger
         self.conf = conf
-        self.auth_host = conf.get('bind_ip', '127.0.0.1')
-        self.auth_port = int(conf.get('bind_port', 11000))
+        self.auth_host = conf.get('ip', '127.0.0.1')
+        self.auth_port = int(conf.get('port', 11000))
         self.timeout = int(conf.get('node_timeout', 10))
 
     def __call__(self, env, start_response):