Why do I not want to put all username/passwords in an .htaccess file?

  1. simplicity - 4 groups of users, 4 sets of pages, 4 auth username/password combos
  2. I'm a little uncomfortable having a few thousand username/passwords in an .htaccess file - this would affect performance, no?
  3. if i can just do that, the rest of my code is already mapped out.

There is no need to put all those names in .htaccess. 'require valid-user' will suffice for overall access, and 'require group admin,custodial' to limit access to particular areas. See the Apache docs for setting up the password and group files.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Auto set basic auth username/password by Zaxo
in thread Auto set basic auth username/password by cLive ;-)

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