Date:  Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:11:57 +0200
From:  Trond =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hus=F8?= <tr-huso (at mark) online.no>
Subject:  [coba-e:04778] Re: .htaccess User Authentication
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Darrell,
I think you must install the pam-package from nuonce. It is free.

btw. If you search the archives I think you will find that this question
has been asked - and answered a few times before.

best regards,

Trond
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 01:47 -0400, Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
> Is spring break over?  Apparently no one knows how to authenticate a user to
> the BQ alias file, because there hasn't been one answer to a seemingly easy
> question.  Please help...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrell D. Mobley [mailto:dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net] 
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:05 PM
> To: 'coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org'
> Subject: .htaccess User Authentication
> 
> I have a directory on my server I want to password protect.  I have an
> .htaccess file in the directory that looks like this:
> 
> #Basic configuration for any users:
> AuthAuthoritative On
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName Your_Eyes_only
> AuthExternal pwauth
> require valid-user
> 
> It doesn't work.  
> 
> What should this file look like if I wanted to only allow authenticated
> users from the BQ machine?
> 
> What should it look like if I only wanted to validate the administrative
> user of the BQ machine?
> 
> 
>