Hey,

Is there anyway to have a directory proctected using .htaccess but instead of creating usernames and passwords they have to use thier e-mail address as the username and thier e-mail address password as the password

Many thanks

Make the username their email address and the password the email password maybe? Or do you mean for many accounts?

I was hoping to create it for many users.

Write a php file that re-writes the .htaccess file and inserts whatever username/password you specify in a form?

Amaroq is correct. If you are on a linux box, all you would need is to create a page with a form on it, that has a field for the username and password. The form would then contact the PHP script, and the script would run htpasswd and then paste those results into your htpasswd file.

Running the htpasswd command is very important, because that generates the hash for the password you specified. The htpasswd is a command that is found commonly on linux boxes that have apache installed.

Aside from that, you could always manually enter them in.

HTH