password-protected cgi-bin directory?

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Hi,

when trying to package agdbnet I stumbled upon the installation instruction

   Put the agcurate.pl script in a password-protected cgi-bin directory. ...
   The software uses apache authentication to check that the user has rights
   to curate the database.

   (http://pubmlst.org/software/database/agdbnet/installation.shtml
    item 13.)

I wonder what might be the apropriate implementation in Debian because
I do not know that there is anything like a "password-protected cgi-bin
directory".  Has anybody solved a similar problem or is there some
advise to do this reasonably?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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