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| - | ===== User Authentification ===== | + | ===== User Authentication ===== |
| - | + | **A word of caution:** The procedure below sets up basic authentication only. It is not to be considered highly secure. Basic authentication is a handy solution to require a username and password to access a particular web directory but it isn't robust enough to secure highly sensitive data! | |
| **STEP 1.** Create a directory (name whatever you want) in your __home directory.__ In this example, I called it "authdir". This directory will contain the .htpasswd file, which contains the passwords you give to the 'invited'- guests'. | **STEP 1.** Create a directory (name whatever you want) in your __home directory.__ In this example, I called it "authdir". This directory will contain the .htpasswd file, which contains the passwords you give to the 'invited'- guests'. | ||
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| If you successfully execute the htpasswd command, you will be prompted to enter the password of your 'guest' twice. | If you successfully execute the htpasswd command, you will be prompted to enter the password of your 'guest' twice. | ||
| - | The directory where your .htpasswd resides also must be have read and execute permissions. | + | The directory where your .htpasswd resides needs to have read and execute permissions. |
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| chmod 0644 ~/authdir/.htpasswd | chmod 0644 ~/authdir/.htpasswd | ||
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| Make sure to have the correction protection mode in the authentication-required directory. A suggested protection mode is user-group executable and readable. This example shows a simple password-protected web page. To add additional users, (if, for example, each user who wants to access your protected pages needs their own password, simply run htpasswd again for each username/password pair. | Make sure to have the correction protection mode in the authentication-required directory. A suggested protection mode is user-group executable and readable. This example shows a simple password-protected web page. To add additional users, (if, for example, each user who wants to access your protected pages needs their own password, simply run htpasswd again for each username/password pair. | ||