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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Morris Hooten <Mo...@Sun.COM> on 2004/08/30 18:13:26 UTC

[users@httpd] htaccess limit

Is there a limit of how many users you can add to an .htaccess or
.htpass file in apache?

Thanks


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Re: [users@httpd] htaccess limit

Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:13:26 -0600, Morris Hooten <mo...@sun.com> wrote:
> Is there a limit of how many users you can add to an .htaccess or
> .htpass file in apache?

I don't believe there is a limit.  But you will certainly want to use
a dbm-based auth module if you have many users.  Searching through
plain text files is slow.

Joshua.

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