On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Listserv Admin wrote:

>   We are running listserv 1.8c on solaris and I have just installed wa
> because we have a number of faculty who would like web archives available
> for classes.  The catch is, they don't want everyone else to see the
> material, just the students.  I know the web interface for private lists
> will not be available until 1.8d is released, but I wonder if anyone has
> found a work-around to get wa to check for the existance of a .htaccess
> file or to otherwise passwd protect a specific list directory?

Access to directories on a webserver is independent of LISTSERV, and is
controlled by the webserver software. For example, on httpd or Apache, the
webmaster or list maintainer could control access to the archives of a
private list by putting an appropriate .htaccess file in the directory for
that list. Other webservers have other methods of limiting access.

In any case, such access restrictions are manually set up by the list
maintainer or webmaster and are controlled by the webserver software, not
by LISTSERV.

John

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John Asher                Stage 3 MBBS, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
AIESEC UK IS Manager                    http://www.aiesec.org/uk/infosys/
AIESEC LISTSERV Manager           http://www.aiesec.org/insight/dialogue/
Newcastle Kingsmen webmaster     http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4128220/kingsmen/
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