[CentOS] basic auth fails

[Bob Hoffman]

On 6/21/2012 10:03 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I've setup apache basic auth on by web server to protect my nagios
> site. It's been working just fine, but suddenly it stopped accepting
> passwords even tho they are being typed in correctly. I was wondering
> if I could get some advice on how to troubleshoot this?
>
>   I'm on a centos 5.4 machine
>
>
>
> Linux  2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:34:28 EST 2008 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
> Server built:   Nov 14 2011 18:03:07
>
> I don't see any indication in the logs as to why this may be
> happening, but it's possible I might not be looking for the right
> things.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
>
>
> gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
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perhaps wrong password?
password might be set to expire?
did you check your htaccess files...?
do you have any kind of security that blocks anyone after failing a few 
log ins? (denyhost?)