[2906] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: How to password-protect web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Saito)
Tue Sep 10 05:59:09 1996
From: "Daniel M. Saito" <Daniel@msmail.iosoftware.com>
To: "'riddle@is.rice.edu'" <riddle@is.rice.edu>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
"'Benjamin Suto'" <ben@alliedtours.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 01:11:27 -0700
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
How about for the Windows NT Server 3.51?
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>From: Benjamin Suto[SMTP:ben@alliedtours.com]
>Sent: Monday, September 09, 1996 1:07 PM
>To: 'riddle@is.rice.edu'; 'ben@alliedtours.com';
>'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'
>Subject: RE: How to password-protect web pages
>
>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
>
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