Re: annoying repetitive minimate/security question

["mvend" <mvend@silverclicks.com>]

>>problem: want to secure minimate across several catalogs

I have been messing around with the same problem today and discovered a
method... It seems to work, but may not be the proper way to do it, and we
have not totally tested all the possibilites that could arrise from this
method. It seems to do the job.

1. Create a variable for storing the name of the user you want to have
access to MiniMate and put it in your catalog.cfg we used:

Variable    MINIMATE_USER    username

2. Create a Empty .access file in the MiniMate pages directory
MiniMate/pages/admin

3. Create a file called .access_gate in your MiniMate MiniMate/pages/admin
and add this code:

*: [if session username eq __MINIMATE_USER__]Yes[/if]

This Method will allow each catalog have "1" one user to access MiniMate
Admin. This is a cheating way to do this. Which I had to resort to after
having the same problem as you. The user must LOG IN to his/her catalog from
the browser then they can use the MiniMate Admin.

Rob
mvend@silverclicks.com
rob@silverclicks.com