Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial

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Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial
Introduction
This tutorial surveys the current methods in NCSA Mosaic and NCSA HTTPd for restricting access to documents. The tutorial also walks through setup and use of these methods.

Mosaic 2.0 and NCSA HTTPd allow access restriction based on several criteria:

* Username/password-level access authorization.
* Rejection or acceptance of connections based on Internet address of client.
* A combination of the above two methods.

This tutorial is based heavily on work done by Ari Luotonen at CERN and Rob McCool at NCSA. In particular, Ari wrote the client-side code currently in Mosaic 2.0, and Rob wrote NCSA HTTPd 1.3.

Tutorial Contents

* Introduction
* Getting Started
* General Information
* How Secure is it?
* Basic By-Password Authentication: Step By Step
* Multiple Usernames/Passwords
* More Examples
* For More Information

Getting Started
Before you can explore access authorization, you need to install NCSA HTTPd 1.0a5 or later on a Unix machine under your control, or get write access to one or more directories in a filespace already being served by NCSA HTTPd. Other HTTP Servers also support access authentication, and so"