Lets imagine you had a .htaccess authentication like that: AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/ask-sheldon.com/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Sheldons Secret” AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require valid-user </Limit> … and a corresponding password file, you can deactivate the password prompt on 31.12.2014 at 23:59 automatically with this crontab entry: # remove htaccess password protection on 31.12.2014 MAILTO = mustang@snsconsulting.de 59 […]