Re: [cobalt-users] .htaccess .htpasswd .htgroups

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Audric Leperdi wrote:
> Where does this restriction comes from?
> Where can I find more info about it?

It's safty code added to apache, to prevent users from causing string
buffer overflows in config files and getting root access via the server
(when it runs as root which it does on some machines) , if you have > 500
or so users , definatly think db ...other than that, split it up carefully
and you might get away with it....remember you are pulling in a 37K page
with each hit to anything in that directory when you do it this way tho,
it will tend to stay in memory, but still -/