HTTP Authentication in IIS

[VHockey86]

Is it possible to use the standard HTTP Authentication (the one with the little pop-up box, like if you were logging into a router or something).

Only thing I've found googling is using PHP+mysql. While I could do that, it seems like overkill for this application.

Usually with apache on a unix service, I would add a '.htaccess' file and specify that it required a certain user, then put the encrypted password in a file out of web site directory.

I was looking at the IIS management and it seems the only thing you can do there is link directory security to a windows user / password on that machine.

[Iturea]

Originally Posted by VHockey86

I was looking at the IIS management and it seems the only thing you can do there is link directory security to a windows user / password on that machine.

Are you saying that you don't want to use an ACL for security? If you don't want to use a windows user then I don't know of any other way to have the pop up box appear in IIS short of downloading some third party software.