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

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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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.

yeah how do I do that??

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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')

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

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

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