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[nycphp-talk] Canceling password protected directories

Joe Crawford Jr. jcrawford at codebowl.com
Wed May 26 09:22:55 EDT 2004


by the way i believe that having your htaccess file and or htpasswd file in
your web directory is very insecure, there are programs that can crack
htaccess passwords.

Joe Crawford Jr.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Kushner" <nyphp at websapp.com>
To: "'NYPHP Talk'" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Canceling password protected directories


> > i believe you just remove the line with the directory path
> > that you want to unprotect ;)
>
> Not really:
>
> In /var/www/html/.htaccess there is
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "admin"
> AuthUserFile "<path to passwd>"
>
> I would like to unprotect /var/www/html/somedir
> /var/www/html/somedir does not have an .htaccess, so there's nothing to
> remove.
>
>
> -Daniel
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