SPUG: Password Protection?

[Martin, Asa]

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Altman, Brian wrote:
> > 	I have a Perl/CGI script that allows users to edit a flat file
> > database on a Unix server. Now I need to secure this script so only
> > specified users have access to it. Any thoughts on how I can password
> > protect this script?
> 
> Assuming Apache, you could easily setup a .htaccess file to restrict
> access to that area to specified users/groups.
> 
For a good description of how to do this in apache, check out:
http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth



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