Re: how big is too big for an .htpassword file?

From: "David Mintz" <mambomintz(at)yahoo.com>
> Suppose you want to restrict access to a section of
> your website to members of an organization of about
> 1000 members. An .htaccess file that restricts access
> to users found in a password file would be a way to do
> it, but is that pushing it in terms of the size of the
> file? Would it be better to use a "real" back end
> database like MySQL? Approximately where's the cutoff
> point?
>
> Thanks.

I think the most common way to solve that kind of problem would be to set up
the users in groups, and allow access in the .htaccess file to anyone who is
a member of that group.

My Apache book here doesn't say whether or not multiple AuthGroupFile
directives are allowed, but if they are, then that could be an answer to the
size problem.

Kae

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