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[Riccardo Veraldi <address@concealed>]

Hello I am running sympa 6.1.3.
I have many many users subscribed to different mailing lists on 
different virtual hosts.

My problem is that I cannot afford that every user has a X509 
certificate and also
I cannot manage hundreds and hundreds of user passwords.

I would like normal subscribers (they do not need to authenticate to 
sympa they only need to read archives)
to be able to read Web archives, but I need Web archives not to be 
public visible by everyone.

Is there a way or an option to protect a public web archive with a 
global password ??
Even if sympa is a cgi program, can I protect archives with a 
user/password apache .htaccess style ?


thank you


Riccardo