Authentication problems

[geffry]

Hi,

my .htacces file looks like this,

".htaccess" 5 lines, 174 characters
AuthUserFile '/opt/local/apache/conf/passwd'
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Restricted Area - Enter UNIX Login ID"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user


When i open the web-page,it prompts for entering the user-id/passwd. When I click OK with-out entering any values..thrice.. the page opens up.

Basically the authentication breaks... let me know where i am making the mistake.. which allows failed login attempts to open the page. any settings to be done in httpd.conf ?

 

[Wishdiak]

geffry,

You might want to have a look at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html,

and the steps for creating a password file. Apache should be able to access the directory that the password file is located in, and should have read access to it.

It shouldn't make a difference, but you may want to try removing the single-quotes around the path to your password file.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

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