Re: [Tclhttpd-users] [Fwd: Access Control in tclhttpd]

[Colin M. <co...@ch...>]

Thanks Erik,

I'll take this offline and see if Svenn and I can work out what's going
on.  If there's general value, I'll feed it back.

Colin.

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 04:21, Erik Leunissen wrote:
> Forwarded from c.l.t.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Access Control in tclhttpd
> Date: 27 Sep 2004 13:20:57 -0700
> From: sve...@bj...
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed vanilla tclhttpd 3.5.1 on my winxp machine to have a
> httpd server to run usemod wiki as a cgi-bin. I cannot use apache as
> its install wants to access the registry which is closed for userland
> modifications. Tclhttpd runs fine and I can browse the pages contained
> in the default distribution.
> 
> Except the password protected pages.
> 
> I have read the acces control page and see that in order to create
> users and passwords I should use the Access Control Editor with the
> usernale webmaster and the password that is saved in
> c:\tmp\tclhttpd.default. I notice that tclhttpd recreates a new
> password each time I start the server, but when I want to access the
> Access Control Editor with the username and the currently generated
> password, I get no access.
> 
> I have looked around on tcl'ers wiki and in the Practical Programming
> in Tcl and Tk and searched the group without getting any wiser.
> The Use of Access Editor talks about AuthUserFile and AuthGroupFile,
> but they are supposed to live in /usr/local/htaccess which I guess is
> unix only.
> 
> I found a passwd and a group file in
> c:\tcl\lib\tclhttpd3.5.1\htaccess\win32 but I don't know what to do
> with them as I guess they contain encrypted passwords.
> 
> Does anybody have a stupid end users guide to getting access control
> right on tclhttpd?
-- 
Colin McCormack <co...@ch...>