Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?

[Tony Yarusso]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, volksman <v0lksman69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Password Required"
> AuthUserFile /var/passwords/password.file
> Require valid-user

Note that while this kind of works, it's not really secure.  Basic
means that the passwords are stored in plain text on the server, which
usually isn't a good idea.  Additionally, over normal HTTP, both the
passwords and the content are fully readable by a snooping observer,
so they would know what was being viewed and by whom.  I would still
recommend starting with this configuration, as it's the simplest, but
once you get it working fine you'll want to learn how to upgrade it to
Digest authentication over HTTPS (HTTP+SSL).  There's lots of
documentation on this available on the apache web site.

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Tony Yarusso
http://tonyyarusso.com/