[2901] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: How to password-protect web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Suto)
Mon Sep 9 19:24:20 1996
From: Benjamin Suto <ben@alliedtours.com>
To: "'riddle@is.rice.edu'" <riddle@is.rice.edu>,
"'ben@alliedtours.com'"
<ben@alliedtours.com>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'"
<www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:07:09 -0400
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Thanks, I've already managed to figure it out. It's rather simple.
Heh, just a .htaccess and .htpasswd file. I am running Apache.
>>Reply to your message of 9/9/96 4:30 PM
>>> From owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu Mon Sep 9 12:30:06 1996
>>> From: Benjamin Suto <ben@alliedtours.com>
>>> To: "'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 09:35:42 -0400
>>>
>>> Does anyone know any resources for finding information on password =
>>> protection certain web pages? For example, if a site tries to access a =
>>> certain web page, or any web pages under it, a prompt would show up =
>>> asking for a username and/or password. =20
>>>
>>> My company wants to restrict certain information from the rest of the =
>>> Internet, but still allow our clients to access it. =20
>>
>>This depends entirely on the particular web server software you run.
>>For example, for NCSA httpd the methods are documented at:
>>
>> http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html
>>
>>See the documentation associated with your HTTP server. Good luck.
>>
>>-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
>>-- RiceInfo Administrator, Rice University / http://is.rice.edu/~riddle
>>-- Home office: 2002-A Guadalupe St. #285, Austin, TX 78705 / 512-323-0708
>>
>>End of message
