[mythtv-users] Mythweb security

[Eni Gma]

Patrick Benton wrote:

> FYI,
>
> I had to 'chmod a+r' my password file after running htpasswd to get 
> this to work.
>
> Thanks for the very helpful information!
>
> Patrick

Rather than making it world-readable, you can "chown webuser:webuser 
.htpasswd" where webuser is the user under which your webserver runs. 
 On most systems the user is "nobody" or "apache".

>
>
>
> On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Martin Moeller wrote:
>
>> I would think a simple .htaccess file would do:
>>
>> order allow,deny
>> allow from all
>> require valid-user
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthName "MythWeb Restricted Area"
>> AuthUserFile /some/path/.htpasswd
>>
>> You need to generate the .htpasswd file with the htpasswd utility
>> beforehand. There are many more things you can do with htaccess files,
>> naturally...
>>
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html
>>
>> You can also set it all up in a <Directory> statement. That seems to be
>> what the Apache guys recommend.
>>
>> /Martin.
>>
>> fre, 2003-05-02 kl. 01:10 skrev W Jason McMillon:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have just finished installing apache, php, and
>>> mythweb.  It's freakin' awesome.  Now my questions...
>>> how are you guys keeping it secure?  I am not real
>>> comfortable leaving my server accessable to others.
>>> Is there an easy and painless way to offer some sort
>>> of password protection?
>>>
>>> Thanks for everyone's time
>>> jason
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Martin Moeller <martin at martinm-76.dk>
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