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We have a budding feature to require login to individual webapps.
 
Note - each app may have created a corresponding webapp. It's in this webapp that the Login Required may be selected.
 
If selected, this settings makes it such that the application will ask for a user name and a password.
 
Unfortunately this is no integrated yet with the rest of the user/password system already in place, so for now, it has to be done using htaccess controls.
 
We have decided to make these a global setting, i.e. the users and password are all the same to all the apps that require login.
 
== How to do it ==
 
This requires that an htaccess file and an htpassword file be created in a place that it's accessible to the web server.
 
To create an <code>htpasswd</code> file containing the users and passwords
* you can go to a [http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/htaccess-generator.shtml public htaccess/htpasswd generator] and copy the contents of what the "And this is what your .htpasswd file should look like..." box has
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