Password and Login access

[Jeepers]

Hi,
I'm wondering about the .htaccess from the CNC page.
What is it supposed to be used for?Is it only for the website administrators??

Say I have around 800 members to my website. Would I used the .htaccess feature from CNC to give each an individual username(login) and password to login to my site?

Can this be what the .htacess is for?
Or would it be better to use other login/password scripts.


thanx

[dank]

You could use .htaccess that way, but it would be terribly time consuming to set up and maintain all the member logins. Much better to look into the available login management scripts, although that seems to be an area sorely lacking in terms of quality choices.

Dan

[koala]

Much better to look into the available login management scripts, although that seems to be an area sorely lacking in terms of quality choices.
I use Account Manager Lite (http://cgi.elitehost.com/) to do this for some of my clients.

It's far from perfect, but it's free and reasonably configurable.

It allows users to choose their own login/password, checks for dupes and writes it out to a .htpasswd file.

An email is sent to the account manager advising of an application, and the manager can then approve or deny this from a browser interface.

It is simply a matter of using .htaccess to protect the files or folders required and members, once approved, are then able to log in without any further intervention from you.

Hope this helps :)

Simon