htpasswd works sometimes, but not other times

[HawkCode]

Hi,

I have a user base of 6676 users that all have passwords. We are an organization and update the password file about every 2 weeks as new members come in. I have a perl script I run on my windows box that parses through a TAB delimited file with username password and creates the file used by Apache.

For some reason I have 2 users that I know of that cannot get access with their username and password.

Users imediatly before and after have no problem and their is nothing odd about the data.

If anyone has an idea I would love to here it.

TIA

Rich

 

[Newposter]

Either not using proper case on their username and passwords, or perhaps hidden characters in the tab delimited file are not allowing it to be parsed correctly.

Have you tried deleting and adding them again? Are they using any unusual characters?

Newposter
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[HawkCode]

I looked at the tab file with a hex viewer, no odd characters. I have not tried to delete them and add them yet. Guess I'll try that, but that makes no sence.

Thanks

Rich