[thelist] password protection <general thank you>

[warren]

Thanks to everyone who helped out. .htaccess seems to be the way to go and
the encrypted password (link below) solved the problem of telnetting into
the server to create the encrypted password.

Thanks again,
warren  :)
wordsandpictures.com

> From: Lumir G Janku <lgjanku at w3matrix.com>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:40:01 -0800
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] password protection

> The simplest way:
> 
> <Limit GET POST>
> AuthName "Restricted Area"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /path/.htpasswd
> require valid-user
> </Limit>
> 
> <Limit PUT DELETE>
> deny from all
> </Limit>
> 
> --
> 
> You can use a nifty service for getting an encrypted password here:
> http://www.cuci.nl/services/genpassword.html
> 
> Make sure that you do not copy any trailing spaces.
> 
> Then you create a file .htpasswd (or whatever you named it):
> 
> username:enc_password
> username2:enc_password2
> etc.
> 
> ---
> That's it.