Password Protection Tutorial

Overview

If you have documents on your web site that you only want clients, or specific people to see, you may wish to use passwords for that directory. When a user tries to visit a web page with a "password" required, a dialog box will pop up in their browser asking them for their name and password.

Our password security offers several unique features, such as:

• Web Application to manage the user list.
• Access permissions set by file, directory, or both.
• Assigns access permissions by user or group (each user can belong to one or several groups).
• Handles Account expiration.
• HTTP variables are usable for any CGI or ASP script language.
• ASP object usable to easily manage the member list in any ASP script.
• The member list is stored in a text file and can be updated by FTP.

These security features are implemented with Philippe Tenenhaus' Dynamic Authentication Filter (DAF).

To protect an area on your web site you will have to manage a user list and define access permission for files and directories. The user list is managed through the Web User Manager and Access Permissions are defined with a simple text file named DAFAUTH.INI located in each protected directory.

With DAFTools ASP component you can easily access and manage the user list from any ASP scripts.

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