* Sandeep Gaikwad <sgaikwad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [0558 09:58]: > Hello Anand, > Please try by updating the line AllowOverride None by > AllowOverride AuthConfig or AllowOverride All > > Regards, > Sandeep Guys, read the mails before posting replies, ok? What you suggest would enable .htaccess loading of Auth* directives, which has nothing to do with the question. > > K Anand wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I have a very basic question regarding authentication on apache...I have in > >my httpd.conf a section like below : > ><Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "By Invitaion Only" > > AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwd/passwords > > Require valid-user > > > > AllowOverride None > > Options ExecCGI > > Order allow,deny > > Allow from all > ></Directory> > > > >So whenever a browser first sends a cgi-bin request, authentication is done > >by userid and password...Whenever subsequent requests come for cgi-bin, > >authentication is not required provided the browser has not been closed. > >How > >is this done ? > > > >I know that this is not a problem but I would like to know just for my > >information. -- 'When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.' -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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