Hello,

A software called webct (written in perl) runs beautifully in a redhat box 
while it shows an authentication error in debian. 

The webct installs it's own apache and the error is from apache's 
authenticationmechanism. With my little knowledge I found that the 
authentication details are kept in two files called dbm_pass.dir and 
dbm_pass.pag. These files get modified when we add users to webct. But these 
newly created accounts are not allowed to login as webct shows error message. 
If we use dbmmanage to check the entries with these files, that also shows 
error. If we successfully add users using dbmmanage to these files, then also 
webct fails in authentication. 

The webct people say that they no longer support debian but only redhat. I am 
not inclined to change to redhat back after using debian for a long time just 
for webct.

So any gurus there to help me out? I am surprised why a perl program behaves 
differently in debian and redhat while both similar platforms.


Hoping to hear from you,

With regards

Suresh
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Suresh Kumar.R,                            Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept of Electronics & Communication
College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA
Phone: (O) 91 471 595634 (R) 91 471 593991

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