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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!gryphon.phoenix.net!pflores From: pflores@alpha1.phoenix.net (Paul Flores) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apache & FreeBSD & secure pages Date: 21 Oct 1996 22:20:53 GMT Organization: Phoenix Data Net (713) 486-8337 http://www.phoenix.net Lines: 34 Message-ID: <54gt05$4m9$1@uhura.phoenix.net> References: <54g8rq$jrr@tilde.csc.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha1.phoenix.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] inacio@micro.ti.com wrote: : Hello all, : I'm trying to get Apache to serve up some "secure" web pages. I have the : web server configured so that it asks for a username and password at the correct : pages, but I can never seem to get a match. (i.e. when I type in my username and : password, I always get rejected with a mistmatch on password.) I suspect that it : is in the password file I made. I took my passwd from master.passwd and pasted : it into the web server passwd file. I used to run CERN HTTPD, and it came with : a utility htadm it add people to password files, but I had the same problem : that web server --- could not match passwords. I took it as an omen and : upgraded! : I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0, Apache 1.1.1. I think things other than where I : located Apache on my computer are very normal. : Does anybody know of a utility that adds users to this file? Does anybody know : what's wrong and better yet, how to fix it? : Can you PLEASE send email to me, as well as posting to the group. Chris, In the Apache distribution, there is a program called htpasswd. It will create/manage the password file for the web server. If I remember the verbage correctly: ./htpasswd -c <password file> <Username> Also, FYI, you will need to EXTRA_LIB = -lcrypt to get this to compile on FreeBSD. Paul Flores Charter Communications/Phoenix Data Net