SOS! what is the easiest way to use "username" and "password" to protect my information?

[walala]

Dear all,

I am afraid this is not frontage itself... but I need your help!

I am creating my webpage on unix server, which, I guess surports
CGI... but not ASP, since I guess UNIX server does not support ASP...
or Javascript, right? And I don't have system administrator previlege,
so those fancy scripts do not work for me here...

I want to have "username" and "password" to protect my several
webpages... hosted on that server in this manner:
"www.ourserver.edu/~myuseraccount/mywebpages.html",

I guess it also supports "shtml" although I did not know how to try...

And my knowledge about CGI is really low...

So, please advise me with what is the most effective yet simple way of
doing this "username+password" thing?

And I want the webpage can be accessed in
"http://username:[email protected]/~myuseraccount/mywebpages.html"
manner...

Is that possible?

Thanks a lot,

-walala

 

[Steve Easton]

Since it's an apache server running unix.
( I assume apache ) you can use
..htaccess and .htpasswd files to do this.
There's a tutorial here:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/
read the entire thing.
This also can be done using FrontPage but I have lost
the link to the MSFT knowledge base article.