password protected webinterface

[pasman]

Is it possible to set a password for the setup page (http://hda)?Now every user can change all the settings he wants, just type hda in his browser and he is free to do what ever he pleases.Is there a way to prevent this by setting a password????

[cpg]

it's a feature for the next release (i thought we already had a feature request for this, as it has been mentioned several times and agreed as a feature, however, we did not seem to, so i filed one).

in the mean time .. you can take it as do-it-yourself password protection.

[pasman]

Thanks for the quick reply, , everything works fine now

[cpg]

i thought i mention two things

• we try to be very very careful about this, however, if you modified the .conf file, it *could* conceivably not work well when we release the feature. you want to check on this often, as it's not supported as of now. furthermore i would disable automatic updates of everythig, including amahi, to prevent something like apache being updated upstream and this not work. *if* it were to break, it would more likely break by not working, rather than just being open.
• you can go to the bug and click on "watch" to get notified of when it's implemented and released.

sorry, i'm just paranoid. we're not building a security/bulletproof system. we want to build something that works and we'll work on selectively tightening parts of it in the future for specific usage cases.

[pasman]

Is there an easy way to undo this? For example of i save those two files leaving it blanc.Or can i manually change the config file using nano???.I am a little bit femillare with that ..
I don't need to protection right now, maybe in the future when my soon is old enough ......(excuse my for my poor english)

[cpg]

absolutely. just keep your original files and modified files and swap them as you wish!

[pasman]

Oke, but i allready made the change, so how can i undo this now, without reinstalling fedora completly.can you tell me which files i have to change and how they should look..