[wp-hackers] Securing a part of WordPress structure

[Paul Menard]

Greeting all, Happy Monday.

Have a question. A client need to password protect a section of their  
site. They currently have just static HTML content setup on a server.  
They are using htaccess protection via Apache. Considering WordPress  
does not use physical directories is there a way to 'lock-down' an  
entire category or nested page hierarchy?

Not clear? Consider this. The client has the following site structure.

/
/projects/
/projects/admin/            ß Protect from here and all folders under  
admin
/projects/admin/docs
/projects/summer/
/blogs/
/blogs/life
/blogs/after-life
/aboutus/
/aboutus/privacy/

I know they can password protect the page by assigning a password.  
But they want to traditional popup box for username and password. I'm  
not aware of plugin that offers this functionality.

P-