How to set up protected W3C httpd Protected W3C httpd Setup Access can be restricted according to user name, internet address, or both.
Access control can be tree-level, file level, or both.
You can also look at the examples of protection setup . If user-wise access control is used there has to be a password file listing all the users and their encrypted passwords. Password file can be maintained by htadm program which is a part ot W3C httpd distribution. However, Unix users are in no way connected to the WWW access authorization. Group File Group file contains declarations of groups containing users and other groups, with possibly an IP address template.