Re: [hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

[Ben <azlobo73 (at) gmail.com>]

PPS:  And for the record, I wouldn't have known myself until I tried
it out to know (I sounded a little short in my initial reply and
didn't want you to think I meant you should have known better).  Thank
you, for helping me learn something new today :-)

Ben

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Ben <azlobo73 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> PS: We're running LAMP stack Apache 2.0 should it make a difference.
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>  On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Ben <azlobo73 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>  > We don't have ours open (in fact very we keep access as limited in
>  >  scope as is necessary; in our environment we can so we do - thank
>  >  goodness for socks5 and ssh), but a little time testing yields answers
>  >  for the auth question.
>  >
>  >  Set the same realm (AuthName directive) and password auth file(s)
>  >  (AuthUserFile and optionally AuthGroupFile if using groups -
>  >  recommended for multiple users so you can give everyone their own
>  >  accounts, manage them simply via group management, and safely revoke
>  >  access when needed) in all three locations.  That will do the trick
>  >  (Tested via Firefox, Opera, and Epiphany).  Even setting the same
>  >  password file(s) should be sufficient most of the time.  I even can
>  >  create the same user/pass credentials in separate password files and
>  >  login only once to access all three locations.
>  >
>  >  Ben
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