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Authorizing a Short List of UW NetIDs

Summary

Follow these step-by-step instructions if you want to password protect your Web site using a short list of UW NetIDs.

To provide access to a short list of UW NetIDs:

  1. Log in to your Homer or Dante account with Tera Term or another terminal emulator.

  2. Press the O key for Other, then press the W key to drop into the Web development environment.

  3. At the prompt, enter the following command to change directories to your Web directory:

    cd public_html

    If you want to protect a subdirectory rather than your whole Web site, change directories to the subdirectory you want to protect. For example:

    cd private

  4. At the prompt, enter the following command to create a .htaccess file in the current working directory:

    pico -w .htaccess

    The -w option turns off word wrap, which helps if you have a long list of UW NetIDs you want to authorize.

  5. Add the following text to this file:

    AuthType UWNetID
    require user joshg sallyt jcat

  6. Replace the three example UW NetIDs with your own list of UW NetIDs. Make sure they are all on the same line, each separated by a space, just as you see above.

  7. Save the .htaccess file (in Pico use ^X).

  8. You're done! Confirm that password protection is working by opening your Web site with a Web browser.