On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:45:04 -0400, Michael P. Smith <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Have been playing with Apache for a while now and one "feature" is annoying
>to my users (which are all using IE 5.0 or higher).   I have opted to go
>with the mod_auth basic authentication.  The users are getting prompted for
>a password for every directory they enter that is located at or below a
>directory that has a password specified.  To better explain, here an
>example of what I'm talking about.
>
>Assume a basic www structure as follows
>
>/www
> /pub_a
> /pub_b
> /priv_a
>  /sub_a
>  /sub_b
>
>The access.conf section of my httpd.conf file have passwords associated
>with the directory /www/priv_a.  If the users follow a link into a html
>page in /www/priv_a they are prompted for a user/password pair the first
>time and no user/password prompt afterwards (until IE is restarted).  They
>can access all the various HTML pages without additional prompts.  However,
>if they then follow a link from there to an html page in /www/priv_a/sub_a
>they are prompted again, the same for /www/priv_a/sub_b.  Since neither one
>of these directories have a user/password pair associated with them they
>are basically being prompted again for the user/password pair
>for /www/priv_a directory.  Again, once the valid user/password pair is
>entered the user isn't prompted for the user/password pair again unless IE
>is restarted.
>
>In the above example, is there a way of keeping the users from being
>prompted for user/password when they enter the /www/priv_a/sub_a
>and /www/priv_a/sub_b directories after validating by entering
>the /www/priv_a directory?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Michael P. Smith
>


As to be expected, posted the message and immediately realized I forgot to
mention what version of Apache I've tried this on.


Apache 1.2.5 on MPE/iX 5.5 (binary from M.Bixby site unmodified)
Apache 1.3.9 on MPE/iX 6.5 (binary from HP unmodified)


Michael P. Smith

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