[mythtv-users] Mythweb security

[Patrick Benton]

Thanks, I took that advice.  By running "ps -e -f" I was able to 
determine the user is "apache" from the first column.

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Eni Gma wrote:

> 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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