On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:13:04AM -0800, Sander Temme wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Dave Challener wrote: > > >HOWEVER... it won't accept any of the userid / password > >combinations I give it. > > What are the permissions on /root/SOadmin/.htpasswd, can the web > server child processes read it? They do not run as root, so you need > world-readable on that file. You might need world-readable on all > directories above it, too. > > S.
The file should not be world readable, rather readable by the user and/or group that apache runs as. The file should generally not be writable by the apache user/group. So if apache is running as group 'www' then the following permissions would be advisable: chown root:www /root/SOadmin/.htpasswd chmod 640 /root/SOadmin/.htpasswd Also, the parent directories don't need to be world readable, but only executable to the user/group that apache runs as. -- Steve Feehan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
