Password protected YUM repository

To create a password protected YUM repository:

Setup http authentication in httpd.conf file (encouraged rather than using .htaccess):

<Directory /var/www/repo>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Password Required"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords/repo
    Require valid-user
<Directory>

Create auth user password file:

htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/passwords/repo repouser

Restart apache.

Create repo:

yum install createrepo # or equivalent
mkdir /var/www/repo
cp *.rpm /var/www/repo
createrepo /var/www/repo

To use the repo, on the client system in /etc/yum.repo.d/<reponame>.repo, have:

baseurl=http://repouser:password@server/repo