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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!fsc.fujitsu.com!pagesat.net!news.digicity.net!usenet From: Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Getting 'htpasswd' to work w/Apache & FreeBSD Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:09:51 -0700 Organization: Digital City Communications, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32425F5F.3DD7@digicity.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidewinder.digicity.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) We've operated the Apache httpd on FreeBSD for more than a year without problem. A client now needs to implement authentication to several subdirectories, so we upgraded the the latest version of Apache and compiled the HTPASSWD program to generate password files for authentication. However, we keep getting errors of "Password Mismatch." In browsing some archives, I noted potential problems between DES and MD5 encryption. The server runs FreeBSD with MD5 (I assume), and the copy of Apache we compiled came from the freebsd.org ports collection and I assume is therefore patched appropriately. We included -lcrypt as an extra lib when we compiled the htpasswd binary as well. Any clues or suggestions? (Thanks in advance!) Damien