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From: inacio@micro.ti.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Apache & FreeBSD & secure pages
Date: 21 Oct 1996 16:37:14 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments SDS Pittsburgh
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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.

TIA,
Chris Inacio
inacio@micro.ti.com