On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Anne Shroeder - Internet Society wrote:
My boss wants me to give selective access to our archives. That is, they are not supposed to be public, but she wants some selected individuals to be able to view the archives without the ability to post to the list (or change their membership information).
This is a function easily provided by the web server.
For example with Apache you can put an .htaccess file into the archive directory for one list that will cause the username/password
dialog to pop up. The disadvantage is that there is no fancy gui
to manage the password file so if you have 100's of 'selected
individuals' with unique logins it will be a management problem.
One .htaccess file that I use looks like this.
AuthType Basic AuthName "HPVA members" AuthUserfile /home/servers/ihpva/htpasswd_hpva_members
# a page telling people why access is restricted ErrorDocument 401 /error/401-HPVA-member.html
<Limit GET POST> require valid-user order deny,allow allow from all </Limit>
-- Brian Wilson Corvallis, Oregon 541-368-4120
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