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<p>New page: ===How do I password protect my web pages?=== Article:429 Created:2005-10-14 17:53:33 Categories: Web Publishing ====Question or Symptom==== ====Resolution==== NCSA compatible we...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>===How do I password protect my web pages?===<br /> Article:429<br /> Created:2005-10-14 17:53:33<br /> Categories:<br /> Web Publishing<br /> <br /> ====Question or Symptom====<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ====Resolution====<br /> NCSA compatible web servers and modern web browsers have the ability to perform<br /> password authentication. These passwords are independent of system passwords.<br /> To set up password protected web pages, follow these steps.<br /> <br /> * Create a new directory under your public_html directory which will store <br /> the protected pages.<br /> * Create a file in that directory called .htaccess with the following <br /> contents (password dialogue is the text which will appear to the browser<br /> in the password dialogue window, and login-name is your SWCP login)<br /> <br /> AuthUserFile /users/login-name/.htpasswd<br /> AuthGroupFile /users/login-name/.htgroup<br /> AuthName &quot;password dialogue&quot;<br /> AuthType Basic<br /> &lt;Limit GET&gt;<br /> require group my-users<br /> &lt;/Limit&gt;<br /> * If your website is on our older web server (kumo) please remove the <br /> quotes from the AuthName argument. <br /> <br /> * Create a file in your home directory called .htgroup with the contents<br /> <br /> my-users: pumpkin peanuts almonds walnuts<br /> <br /> These are the users who are allowed to access. They will also need to have<br /> passwords defined in .htpasswd. To create this file and add the first username<br /> use the following UNIX command:<br /> <br /> htpasswd -c /users/login-name/.htpasswd username<br /> <br /> After running the htpasswd command, you will be prompted for the users <br /> password twice. This will create a file /users/login-name/.htpasswd containing<br /> a encrypted form of the password. The -c option to the htpasswd command creates<br /> the password file so after adding the initial username use the following Unix <br /> command to add additional usernames:<br /> <br /> htpasswd /users/login-name/.htpasswd username<br /> <br /> * Finally, all 3 files have to be world readable (chmod a+r). Now, when any<br /> files in password protected directory are accessed, the browser will get a <br /> password required dialogue.<br /> <br /> chmod a+r /users/login-name/.htpasswd<br /> chmod a+r /users/login-name/.htgroup<br /> chmod a+r /users/login-name/public_html/somedir/.htaccess<br /> <br /> While very useful, there are a couple of drawbacks to this htpasswd mechanism.<br /> Users and their passwords have to be created using the command line utility, <br /> and then manually entered into .htgroup. Also, each time you run the htpasswd <br /> utility, it sets the mode of the file .htpasswd back to 600. So it will have to<br /> manually changed back to mode 644 (chmod a+r). Users who want to automate this <br /> procedure via CGI should keep these things in mind for their scripting.<br /> <br /> <br /> ====Related URLS====<br /> http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html</div>

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