The setting: I have a folder (call it foo/bar), on which I've unchecked Acquire Permissions Settings and checked Authenticated, so logins should be enforced when attempting to access that folder. In foo, I define the index_html method. In foo/bar I have file.txt The issue: If I try to access foo/bar, I do not get authenticated -- it _seems_ to be going by the permissions govering foo/index_html, instead of foo/bar (before accessing) foo/bar/index_html (and then, lacking that, inheriting). If I try to access foo/bar/file.txt, I get asked to authenticate. This is wholly counterintuitive to someone who first did his authenticating years ago using .htaccess files -- permissions on a folder should affect attempts to acquire any resource within that folder, *regardless* of whether that resource is inherited or not! Is there a fix to this that doesn't involve the (less scalable) notion of copying the index_html method from the top into this directory? Thanks -- Fred Hicks <iago@iago.net>