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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!zdc!super.zippo.com!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!gatech!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-sea-19.sprintlink.net!news-in-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!user63.lightside.com!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and htpasswd Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:17:23 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <fred-2706970017240001@user63.lightside.com> References: <5ou64q$jlq@news.vcnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user63.lightside.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.1 X-no-archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43615 In article <5ou64q$jlq@news.vcnet.com>, jamoses@vcnet.com (Jim Moses) wrote: >Hello, > >I run a webserver Apache 1.2 on a Free BSD 2.1.6 Intel machine. I have an >htaccess file and a .htpasswd file. They ARE correctly written and placed. >htpasswd compiled flawlessly and generated the .htpasswd file. I wrote the >htaccess file for un/pw authentication. > >htaccess is: > >AuthUserFile /usr/local/www/default/.htpasswd >AuthGroupFile /dev/null >AuthName Admin >AuthType Basic > ><Limit GET> >require admin I believe what you want here is: require valid-user ></Limit> > >htpasswd is at /usr/local/www/default/.htpasswd and >looks like this: > >admin:G6tXAWsg87hUo > >The web browser correctly challenge the user when the directory >under the html root is accessed, but It will not pass >authentication. Authentication continues to fail! Any ideas what is wrong. >I needed no library modifications to find the crypt() function when htpasswd >was compiled. > > >Thanks, Jim Moses -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party