Second authentication of back office

[glenns]

Hey all I read the interview here:
http://www.prestashop.com/blog/article/the_interview_of_the_month_remi_prestabox_project_manager/

Where in advice to merchants it is said to: If you are a merchant, set up a second authentication on your Back-Office with htaccess / htpasswd, or ask your service provider to integrate it.


Is there some more info on integrating this, or step by step with this for PS? Is this just a fail safe against logging in with only your password to access the back office?

What are some other ways to help secure access to your back office besides a strong password?

[Batusai]

There are many tutorials in internet explaining how to securo a folder, say adm or admin or something like that, using htaccess / htpasswd. It's not complicated. Some servers let you do it easily through a "Folder protection" secction into their Plesk or Control Panel or CPanel (there are many applications to let you administrate your website).

Sometimes you don't have that possibility into your Control Panel so you have to do it yourself, but it's not too difficult.