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Old 06-24-2005, 06:22 PM
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Dear friends,
I think to protect directory acsess using passwords.
Is it possible to password protect any directory on server ?

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Old 06-24-2005, 06:36 PM
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No you can password protect normal dir under Linux. If you mean Apache web server dir over http/https that is possible.
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Old 08-29-2005, 10:07 PM
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But you can restrict access to it by using groups and only members of the group (with their name and password) can access the folder
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