You oughta look into mod-security. It allows you to do some real neat stuff as far as "securing a webserver" is concerned. --- Kishore Jalleda <kjalleda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yes SSL would be your best bet, with .htaccess your > passwords would be > travelling in plain text, so go for SSL... > > Kishore Jalleda > > > On 3/14/06, Toto Capuccino <shoktai@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am using a monitoring tool -nagios- that is > running through a web > > interface where you can configure things. I really > want avoid people from > > being able to log to that server or to know wich > is coming in and out of the > > traffic. I am actually using authentication with > .htaccess file. Is that the > > most secured authentication method ? Yes i know it > is a naive question and i > > am sure the answer is no, so i should ask which > authentication method is the > > best? > > I want to strongly encrypt the traffic...should i > use SSL for that ? > > > > Thanks for your info. > > > > -- > > Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux > partagée. > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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