[2902] in WWW Security List Archive
How to password-protect web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prentiss Riddle)
Mon Sep 9 19:27:37 1996
From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
To: ben@alliedtours.com (Benjamin Suto), www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 14:30:47 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <01BB9E32.45CF7D80@ben.alliedtours.com> from "Benjamin Suto" at Sep 9, 96 09:35:42 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> 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
