directory protection

[bhoward3]

hello

i have a site in which material is accessed via a login screen, i currently am using protection on a per page basis basically checking a users access level stored in a cookie and allowing or redirecting.

the new requirement now a content list where the user clicks a link and is presented with info.

the list the person can choose from is pretty long, and i would prefer not to have to go into each of the landing pages and add my 10 lines of protection code.

is there a way to protect the directory all of these landing pages reside in, (the landing pages are actually in a directory as well, for example structure is like this archive:course1:index.htm) since the user has already logged in i dont want them to have to do it twice and when you apply directory protection via chmod, the user presented with the usual login password screen.

thank you

[suepahfly]

From what i understand, y ou require a user to login, and grant access to files in different direcotries.

Well in that case you could solve your problem with .htaccess files i guess (if running on Apache).

and use the htpasswd utillity to create password files.

You can actually use php to create and update password file also but i don't know wich hasing algorithm htpasswd uses.