[hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

[Dirk Kastens]

Josh,

> Secondly, there are three different "virtual directories" requiring the 
> three different authentication statements.  The problem is that there 
> are now three places to login at, the /hobbit and /hobbit-cgi and 
> /hobbit-cgisec and it gets very irritating.  I don't mind logging in 
> once, but when you navigate through pages and have to login again for 
> the same application is looks pretty ridiculous.

>      >   AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring1"

>      >   AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring2"

>      >     AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring3"

And that's what Buchan wanted to point out: why do you use three 
different AuthNames? Just use the same AuthName for your three alias 
entries and everything will be fine. Your users only will have to 
authenticate once.

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Regards,

Dirk Kastens
Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center)
Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany
Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470