Re: Basic ByPassword Authentication

Kevin ( kevin@flicks.com )
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 07:04:28 -0800

You could check out AuthentiX
http://www.flicks.com/flicks/authx.htm

or AuthentiX ISP
http://www.flicks.com/authentix_isp/

to see if either of these meet your needs...

Regards
Kevin

At 06:26 PM 12/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Running NT4.0sp3 & IIS3.0
>
>I have a new customer who wants to deploy a website on our IIS server
>and control access using the NCSA HTTPd feature of directory access
>control. This calls for a file .htaccess to be placed in the directory
>to control and a file named .htpasswd in some other directory for
>authentication.
>
>(see http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html for
>reference).
>
>My question is:
>
>How can this be done under WinNT and IIS since you can not even create a
>file name beginning with (.)? I have checked the IIS documentation but
>it only talks about standard NT authentication. Does IIS do the same
>thing in some other manner, did I miss something in the documentation or
>must the customer reinvent this feature?
>
>Any comments or suggestions appreciated.
>
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