Limiting Web Gallery Viewers

Under the settings for each Web Gallery, I see that you can limit the gallery to people who have the correct Name and Password. Can you only create one Name and Password for each Web Gallery? Or can you create multiple Names and Passwords for the same Web Gallery.
Let say I have a Web Gallery titled "See My Pictures" and I have two friends that I would like to share the gallery with. Does Aperture 2 limit you to only 1 Name/Password for each of my friend? Or can I create a separate Name/Password for each friend (thus creating 2 Name/Password combinations)?

hmmm... doesn't seem to be answered for me. I agree that you can select either Album viewable by: Everyone / Only me / user1 / user2 / usern / public... this does suggest i can't allow 2 or more users to access this (unless i give them all the same password.
Does anybody know how we can allow multiple users to access one gallery via password?
Cheers
J

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