[1811] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: access control
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holger Reif)
Thu Apr 11 07:59:48 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 11:16:42 +0200
From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif)
To: swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
"S.W. Cheung" <swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com> wrote:
> I know that I can control the access right of a particular directory
> with either .htaccess or access.conf (central access control).
> Since I am not the webmaster, I wonder if I still can setup my own
> access.conf to control the access right in my accessible directory.
You can since the webserver looks in every dir it serves for such an file
called .htaccess. but you can't provide your own access.conf so you
need some cooperation from your webmaster. The chances that he did allow
the protection of your own dirs are quite good
for setting up see
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.ed/tutorial/
where you can find how to set up basic authentication (at least for ncsa
httpd since the actual implementation is server specific)
read you later - Holger Reif
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