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Re: [cobalt-users] Password protection problems
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Password protection problems
- From: "Steven Werby" <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Feb 13 09:19:21 2000
Fathi Said <fathi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> But may I ask, if you specify an allowed username in the .htaccess, why
not
> just use a htpasswd file?
I would suspect the admin doesn't want to do this b/c he wants to use the
same username/password for site admin access as access to this
password-protected directory. To do so with a htpasswd file requires
knowledge of the password and since the passwords are maintained in two
separate files (/etc/shadow and htpasswd) if one password is changed
manually the other one would not automatically be changed.
Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}