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#! rnews 1623 bsd From: "Martin Cracauer" <cracauer@bik-gmbh.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting 'htpasswd' to work w/Apache & FreeBSD Date: 20 Sep 1996 21:30:42 GMT Organization: BIK Markt-, Media- und Regionalforschung, Hamburg/Germany Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bba743$7cb33f70$5dede9c2@biff> References: <32425F5F.3DD7@digicity.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.233.237.93 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.maz.net!news.ppp.net!usenet Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> wrote in article <32425F5F.3DD7@digicity.net>... > We've operated the Apache httpd on FreeBSD for more than a year > without problem. A client now needs to implement authentication to > several subdirectories, so we upgraded the the latest version of > Apache and compiled the HTPASSWD program to generate password files > for authentication. > > However, we keep getting errors of "Password Mismatch." It works for me. Try generating the password file by hand. The easiest way to get an encrypted password is not have a temporary account, use `passwd <thatname>` and then steal the password from /etc/master.passwd. I don't think is has to with different libraries. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@bik-gmbh.de> Programmer, BIK Aschurwis + Behrens GmbH, Hamburg/Germany Markt-, Media- und Regionalforschung http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer