This module comes with a set of methods to use with htaccess password files. These files (and htaccess) are used to do Basic Authentication on a web server. The password file is a flat-file with login names and their associated crypted password. You can use this for non-Apache files if you wish, but it was written specifically for .htaccess style files. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htpasswd/