When installing Foswiki with the installer under windows, the configure script is unprotected. This is bad by design, because protecting it is to defficult for the auience using this installer.
Just use apache/bin/hpasswd to create a password file and then protect it the normal way
-- EugenMayer
yup.
-- SvenDowideit - 23 Jan 2009
in 1.0.4
-- SvenDowideit - 20 Mar 2009