PassDir, PassDir, Magenta Password Directory IIS Filter, is a powerful utility for protecting specified directories. #Iis filter #Iis protection #Password directory #Iis #Filter #Protection
PassDir, PassDir, Magenta Password Directory IIS Filter, is a powerful utility for protecting specified directories from unauthorised access using the Microsoft Windows IIS Web Server. It supports IIS/4 in NT4, IIS/5.0 in W2K, IIS/5.1 in XP Pro and IIS/6 in in Windows 2003 Server. It is designed to provide protection by simply FTP'ing or copying text files onto the server without needing access to any IIS Administration functions, similarly to the way the UNIX Apache web server is protected by .htaccess/.htpasswd files.
PassDir uses the same Apache .htpasswd format files for the lists of authorised users, although the information from multiple .htaccess files is contained in a single INI file. PassDir also has the ability to redirect expired users to a special renewal page.
Note that PassDir is a Windows DLL that needs to be installed as an ISAPI Filter in IIS at either master, default or virtual site level through IIS Administration. But once installed, all configuration is through text files. If you don't have access to your own web server, please check first that your web hosting company will install an ISAPI Filter on your site.
PassDir includes the Encode UNIX Password 32-bit Windows application that allows user names and passwords to be encoded into .htpasswd format files. This may be automated by command line arguments. Alternatively an OCX is available that allow password management to be added to windows applications.
Please note that PassDir is incompatible with FrontPage publishing which requires windows authentication to be enabled to work properly. But FTP has always been the best way to update web sites.
Requirements:
■ IIS
What's new in PassDir 1.7.0:
- Added LicenseFile to allow userreg.txt to be located in a specified directory, primarily where multiple PassDir DLLs are installed for different sites, so they can share the same license key file. Added support for authentication cookies, as an alternative to the basic authentication logon dialog box. thus allowing the logon user name and password to be entered using normal HTLM form fields and saved as a cookie which PassDir reads instead of the Authorization: header. The cookie is called PASSDIRLOGON, the cookie path is set to the protected directory path, expiry date is optional, and the cookie value is the logon details, in one of three formats. The simplest cookie format is clear text, '1logon:password' where the figure 1 indicates clear format and a colon separates the logon name and password. To avoid the password being visible, it may be encoded using Magenta COM Objects (magobjs.dll), an ActiveX that must be installed on the server running the ASP pages, where the cookie becomes '2encodedstring'. Finally the logon may be base64 by VBScript to avoid using an ActiveX, where the cookie becomes '3base64string'. Note that cookies values are visible in the browser and often appear in web logs. Magenta COM Objects is available free to licensees of the 10-25 or unlimited directory versions of PassDir. A web page logon.asp illustrates the VBScript needed to create the cookies described above. Fixed a problem that may have prevented PassDir running on Windows 2003 server. Improved logging so alphabetic dates are always used.
PassDir 1.7.0
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- passdir.zip
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