[mythtv-users] How to tune security access in Mythweb

Kerry Wilson kwilson at wmsco.com
Mon Jan 30 17:30:55 UTC 2006


Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is not entirely related to MythTV but I guessed somebody here 
> will have the answer.
>
> I have installed MythWeb and it's working perfectly. What a nice piece 
> of work, so easy to use and look so good. I'd like to see the ability 
> to edit the channels in mythtv-setup as it's designed in mythweb, so 
> much easier and you can delete channels !!
>
> Anyhow, I'd like to give access to a few people to mythweb, but I do 
> not want them to access the settings page.
>
> So I added a specific password area with:
> <Location /mythweb/settings>
>     Options FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride All
>         AuthType        Digest
>         AuthName        "MythTV/Admin"
>         AuthDigestFile  /etc/httpd/password/htpasswd
>         Require user admin
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Location>
>
> However, this will not work, it looks like mythweb keep loading the 
> page over and over..
>
> How would you secure an area like settings ?
>
> Thanks
> JY
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Place a .htaccess file in it that uses a different password file than 
the others.


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