The following is a brief instructional guide to taking advantage of 
the built-in "Basic" authentication scheme provided as a part of the 
Netscape Enterprise webserver.

Please note that this information assumes you are working off of the 
UNIX webserver, with a GP login.

The netscape server has been activated to provide directory level 
security for your public_html entries. There are essentially 3 items 
that need to be addressed for you to take advantage of this security 
feature:

1) You need to create a .nsconfig file and move it into your public_html 
   directory. The contents of this file should read:

	<Files *>
	RequireAuth userfile=/home/mylogin/public_html/pass realm=stuff userpat=*
	</Files>
	#/home/mylogin/public_html/pass should be replaced by your own path and password file... 

2) You need to create a password file, which generally resembles the 
   passwd file on most UNIX systems.  However, this file has only two 
   fields per line, colon separated (:)- a userid, and an encrypted password.

3) following is a perl script that allows you, the administrator of your 
   site, to enter users and passwords and write this to the file you 
   specify. Cut and paste this, and make changes where applicable.

               #!/opt/WWW/perl
               print "Enter userid: ";
               chop($user = <STDIN>);
               print "Enter desired password: ";
               system 'stty -echo';
               chop($pass = <stdin>);
               system 'stty echo';
               print "\nPlease enter password again: ";
               system 'stty -echo';
               chop($pass2=<stdin>);
               system 'stty echo';

               @junk = (A..Z,a..z,0..9);
               srand(time);
               $salt = "$junk[int(rand(62))]$junk[int(rand(62))]";

               if ($pass eq $pass2) {
               $secret = crypt($pass,$salt);
               open(PASSWD, ">>pass");#enter your passwd file here
               print PASSWD $user.":".$secret."\n";
               close PASSWD;
               print "\n"; #clears the screen with a newline
               }else {
               die ("\nSorry, passwords not the same. Please run the script again.\n");
               }

4) This file should be saved as something like "addone" and its mod 
   should be set to 755. If you place the file in a directory that is 
   in your PATH, such as bin, when you cd to the directory you want to 
   create the password file in, you can simply type "addone" at the 
   command prompt. The file is then interactive.

5) Make sure the password file and the .nsconfig file can be read by 
   user nobody (chmod 644 pass).

This should now work. The user should see a dialogue box asking for login 
and password whenever they try to enter the particular directory that contains 
a .nsconfig file.

For cgi developers, the login id is contained in the environment variable 
$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}. This environment variable remains populated for the 
duration of the session.