http_auth w/ IIS

drag0n

Hello
I am running a w2k server with iis5.0
I am trying to do http_authenication like the apache kinds, but I am having trouble doing so, the only choices I have are Windows Integrated Auth or Anonymous access to everyone, is there anyway to make IIS pass protect folders like apache and get uname/pass from a txt file or the like or any other way of pass protecting folders other then Windows AUTH?
I am stuck with IIS since the project Im working on requires both php and ASP.NET

I even wanted to just install another instance of a webserver(apache) on port 88 or something.
Any help will be appreciated!

larsvn

In IIS the Apache kind of authentication is called "Basic". And it always uses the local/domain user accounts for authentication, not a text file. You set it in the properties on the selected directory in the Services Manager.

I don't understand that you say that "... the only choices I have are Windows Integrated Auth or Anonymous access to everyone.". The basic option should be available in the same dialog as the two other. The only reason I can think of how this can occur, is if your server uses Active Directory which do supersede "old" domain accounts.

drag0n

so i can select Basic Authenication and I can let it get stuff from text files? Yes there is a basic auth function, but ontop of that it says all user/pass is gotten from NTFS Access Lists which is windows auth and I want to employ a way to use something like htaccess

larsvn

As the dialog says, it uses the local/domain user accounts, not a text file like htaccess. Which I believe is typical for Windows.

As this is a security issue, the actual login/password's are most likely stored somewhere safe, which probably is a file (certainly not the registry), but in an encrypted form, not as ascii.

I don't know of any utility to dynamically import a login/password text file into a domain, so you probably have to either program some sort of interface yourself, or administer it with the normal GUI tools. Or install Apache as a parallel webserver.