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
