Re: Apache: unable to use authentification
Marc,
Try checking the file permissions on your password file. It needs to be
readable by the user the web server runs as.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 02:49:05 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net>
> To: Marc Mongeon <Mongeon@bankoe.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Apache: unable to use authentification
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
>
> > You need to specify the "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive for that
> > directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf).
>
> I have AllowOverride All for this directory. I hoped that All would be
> enough :)
> Anyway, without AllowOverride set to either All or AuthConfig, I do get a
> request for username&password, but this alwais fails. I tried using a
> plain password file, a dbm file and using PAM. All fail.
>
> > I'm trying to get Apache (tried the Slink version and the current Potato
> > version) to use authentification for some directory.
> > Inside the directory have the following .htaccess:
> >
> > AuthType basic
> > AuthName rinet
> > AuthUserfile /etc/apache/htpasswd
> > require user bartjan
> >
> > When I try to authentificate myself, I get in error.log:
> >
> > [Tue Aug 17 16:13:20 1999] [error] (13)Permission denied: access to
> > /rinet/ failed for 10.2.100.11, reason: Authentication failure
> >
> > Passwd file was produced with htpasswd and does contain the user bartjan.
> > I tried to authentificate myself numerous times, so mistyping the password
> > is not the problem.
> > auth_module is loaded in httpd.conf
> >
> > The systems I tested on are Slink systems, but with Potato libc6
> > (2.1.2-0pre2) and a few other upgrades. Kernels 2.2.5 and 2.2.6
>
> Tot ziens,
>
> Bart-Jan
>
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