So everyone will be using the same login details for the .htaccess protection (it's a fairly small group of users who need to access these pages, who all trust each other and having one login for all saves a lot of hassle). So no dynamic modification needed (if I understand you correctly).

Users will be subscribed to a maximum of four lists, but I'd like them to be able to browse the archives of all of them. In other words, have the mailing lists behave as if they have public archive access, but behind a .htaccess wall to prevent Joe Bloggs from reading the lists.

This may get overly complicated, so I might just create a dummy account and publicise the login details on a page protected by .htaccess. Messy but easy.

Phil




Mark Sapiro wrote:
Phil Ewels wrote:

I'd like to avoid using the standard private archives because that would require users to log in a second time, with a second username and password. I'm attempting to hide everything behind a single .htaccess wall.


OK, but I don't think dynamically modifying .htaccess can work. What if
you have two 'disjoint' users trying to browse different archives
concurrently?

Or were you thinking of per-list .htaccess modified by your subscribe
process?


The other reason is that the users are currently being signed up by an automated script, which does it silently, so they are not getting any welcome messages and will not know what their subscription password is.

I'll have a go using ?password=PASSWORD and see where I get to...


OK

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