Specifications

FIGURE 14.5
The Microsoft Management Console allows us to configure Internet Information Server 5.
To add basic authentication to the protected directory, right-click on it and select Properties
from the context menu.
The Properties dialog allows us to change many settings for this directory. The two tabs that
we are interested in are Directory Security and Custom Errors. One of the options on the
Directory Security tab is Anonymous Access and Authentication Control. Pressing this Edit
button will bring up the dialog box shown in Figure 14.6.
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FIGURE 14.6
IIS5 allows anonymous access by default, but allows us to turn on authentication.
Within this dialog, we can disable anonymous access and turn on basic authentication. With the
settings shown in Figure 14.6, only people who provide an appropriate name and password can
view files in this directory.
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