Wow! Great! Thanks, That linux conf is very nice! Thanks for your answears, I'll give all that stuff a try!
Take care! On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to > > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common directory for > > the proyects we share and files we share... > > > > How would I go about that? does it go in /home? > > You may want to look at CVS (www.cvshome.org) It's a complete versioning > tool designed to allow concurrent development my multiple developers. (Like > Visual SourceSafe from MS) > > However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you > want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files. > (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would be > a perfectly valid place. > > > > > I guess that for that i need to creat a group to which we will both belong > > so that only we have acces to it without having to change user accounts, > > so if you can also tell me where to find info about common practices to > > manage groups and users I'll appreciate it... Also, is there an easy to > > use tool to manage groups and users in a term? > > I would check out linuxconf, available as a debian package, or webmin > (www.webmin.com/webmin) which is a great tool -- very easy to use and does a > lot more than just manage users and groups. > > > > The other question: How do I protect a web page with a password? Let's say > > that I create a user with public_html and I want to get a username and > > password to enable acces to it... > > Assuming you're running apache, you need to have mod_auth enabled and then > you just need to create a fairly simple .htaccess text file and a password > file using htpasswd. See: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html > > for more information. > > hth. >
