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Re: Apache will not authenticate anyone!



Benjamin Suto wrote:
> I've been trying to set up mod_roaming, and I have had no luck.  Apache
> will not authenticate anyone, but Netscape seems to find the server and
> it will try to log in.
> 
> I've also tried to make a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file in my
> public_html directory, and it will not even authenticate a user I've
> created with htpasswd. Authentication seems to be broken completely in
> my copy of Apache.
> 
> I've worked with Apache for quite a while and I have no idea why this
> would be happening.  I've never had problems like this with
> authentication.

Try removing the libapache-mod-auth-sys and use the .htpasswd file.

If you use shadow and libapache-mod-auth-sys, you have to run apache as
group shadow - a large security hole, IMHO.

-- 
see shy jo


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