Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer Password Protected Directories

[Lillith Lesanges <lillith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Chris Broomall wrote:
> Any ideas why Webalizer 2.01.6-3 on my RaQ4r only password protects the 
> stats for sites that have FrontPage extensions enabled? On every one of 
> the sites where FrontPage Extensions are disabled, the stats show up for 
> anyone without prompting for the admin's password.

I'd start by taking a look at the .htaccess file in the 
/home/sites/site*/web/stats/ directories.  Compare them to the values in 
/etc/group  and see if there's some problem.  (Just looking shouldn't void 
any warranties.  :grin:)

I'm having a slightly -different- issue.  We have clients for whom we are 
both hosting and designing.  Consequently, those clients don't have any 
admin user/pass.  They still want to look at their stats, though.

I dislike the idea of creating a global 'reports' user (only one password,
 etc) and adding it to everyone's .htaccess.  Of course, I want to 
integrate this to the /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl so that it is 
automatically generated when we add a new virtual site.  :)  I've also got 
a constraint that the per-site reports user needs to be something that 
nobody has to look up (ie, not 'siteXX' since i'm the only one who knows 
that).  We regularly have domain names that are longer than 12 characters,
 so the domain name by itself is insufficient, though truncating it would 
be ok.

I suspect that this is an impossible set of constraints, but does anyone 
have any brilliant ideas on how I can implement this?

Lillith K. Lesanges
Sysadmin/Programmer, MIS, Inc.