Password protect a single node (without roles or taxonomies)

We here at drupal do not tolerate begging.

Heh, just joking. I was going to respond to your post anyways even without your plea for help.

To my knowledge - no, there is currently no way to do exactly what you are asking for. Also, to my knowledge, I don't know how possible it would be to write said functionality. There may be a module developer out there that could do the trick, but you'd have to pay for it.

Last of all, why not use the Taxonomy Access module???

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Try organic group here http://drupal.org/project/og this gives you the ability to create as many groups as you want and fill each of them with as many users as you want and then decide either their contents are private or not. Regards.

I'm interested in password protect a node for anonymous users. We post nodes and specify a password and then give it out to those who are allowed to see our node. Upon first visit to the node, we require the password to view it, then should store this in the anon user's session. Is there much integration with any Drupal hooks for this? I'm looking into node_grants, but everything seems to be tied to a UID.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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i am looking for something like this but specifically for all admin pages in order to edit.
i want to give all registered users the ability to see and use the admin part of the site, but password protect or lock certain pages, prevent editing by all but admin. thanks i will probably start a new topic as this is quite old. v 6.x

I just needed a basic road block to stop people from viewing a single Drupal node (page). I added the following PHP code in the content body (make sure the input format is PHP code and change the username/password to anything you want):

// Authorization
	$username = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
	$password = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'];
	if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])
	|| $username != "qwerty" || $password != "qwerty") {
		header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Please Login"');
		header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
		print 'Sorry, incorrect password or username.';
		exit;
	}

http://drupal.org/project/protected_node

Enable the module, set Anonymous role to have access to protected node. Set password on the node you want to protect.

Another way to do this is to put an empty directory in your Drupal root. Lets say we call it "protected". In your new protected directory, create .htaccess that contains this:

AuthUserFile /path/to/passwd/file/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted area log in"
Require valid-user

Then using your standard htpasswd command (or however you tend to create them), create the password file and user(s)/ password(s).

Now go and create a node. If you give it a URL alias of "proctected/foo" or "protected/anything-else". Anything at that path will now be protected by htaccess/htpasswd.

Caveats: This will only work with clean URLs enabled. This whole setup is wildly prone to URL hacking; a user can use both the nod/nid path and the "?q=protected/" non-clean URL path. This is security through obscurity at best.

I've only tested this with D6, on Debian, running Apache2 - your mileage may vary on other setups.

try http://drupal.org/project/protected_node

For anyone stumbling across this for Drupal 7, try https://drupal.org/project/protected_pages