I've put both of these files in my admin directory.. I am getting the password prompt, I enter Al as the user name, and my own password, but it doesn't accept it? What did I do wrong?
Here are my two files:

my .htaccess file is:

AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require user Al
</Limit>

my .htpasswd file is
Username:Al

Why are you trying to use .htaccess/.htpasswd with DBMAN?

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Sorry, I meant to post it in the links discussion forum


Al

I'll post an old thread and hope that it answers your question.

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Alex - posted February 22, 1999 01:14 PM PST

quote:
Anyway, if anyone is concerned about security of their DBMan directory, and the file listing is available from a browser, the only thing I know to do is add an index.html file to the directory. It doesn't matter too much what's on the page, as long as it's named index.html

To protect your auth directory, you can put:

<Limit GET PUT POST>
deny from all
</Limit>

In a .htaccess file in the auth directory (assuming you are using Apache). This will stop anyone from trying to guess/find a session id.

Cheers,
Alex

As you can see, the user posted this Thread in the wrong Forum and the password protection does not deal with DBMAN, but LINKS.



But, thanks for taking the time to reiterate the security issues of DBMAN.

Regards,

Eliot Lee