Is there a hack that protects my admin log in screen?

[sylem]

Ok, I've admined at other boards before and I noticed they had an exrta security log in on the admin control pannel log in screen (Almost like an extra wall of security). Its where u make a totally different username and password (like a site username and password) and u need to successfully log into that before u can access the admin log in screen. Anyone know how to do this??

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[007]

You can do this simply by password protecting the /forum/admin/ directory (forum=whatever your folder is). When people go to that page it will pop up a window for username and password and if they get it wrong it will say access forbidden or something.

[sylem]

yeah how do I do that??

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[SemperFidelis]

As long as your running linux, just use htaccess
Here are some sites that might help you out :
http://www.lowmemory.com/cgi-bin/crypt.pl
http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

If your living in windows world, speak with your host.
You wont be able to use htacess, but permissions on the /admin directory can still be set (basically removes 'anonymous access')

[Icheb]

htaccess is a server issue, it's not related to linux. That's why it does work under windows.

[TECK]

You mean it does NOT work in other servers but Apache, regardless of Windows or Linux OS.

[Slybone]

Go to your Website control panal and select Password Protected Pages and edit it from there