[MLB-WIRELESS] http password access?

[Peter Lieverdink]

At 14:22 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi People,
>
>firstly, many thanks for your input to my earlier query regarding this 
>topic.  I have managed to get the User/Pass banner to be displayed when 
>linking into my web page.
>
>However, the next step is where it all falls apart....
>
>It appears to ignore the password (or user).
>
>I have a "Require maitken" in the /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf file for 
>myself and created a passwd file /etc/httpd/conf/passwd using "htpasswd -c 
>/etc/httpd/conf/passwd maitken"
>but still it ignores my attemps to log in.

You probably want 'Require valid-user' instead.

>Have I placed the passwd file in the correct position?  My html files are 
>in /var/www/html.

Doesn't matter, as long as the AuthUserFile directive points at 
/etc/httpd/conf/passwd

>The system is RH7.0.

That, although possibly broken, shouldn't prevent apache from working 
;-)  Just make sure mod_auth is loaded. (See also mod_auth_pam for easy use 
of /etc/passwd|shadow in Apache)

- Peter. 


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