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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Pam Astor<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Sunday, April 06, 2008 9:59 PM<BR><B>To:</B> CentOS mailing
list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [CentOS] Apache Authorization Access Control -
location ofhtpasswd in Centos 5.1?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>> > > > I tried creating a password file by executing htpasswd
-c <BR>> > /passwd/passwords<BR>> > > > famsite but apparently
htpasswd is not in my path, I’m getting the<BR>> > > > “cannot
create file /passwd/passwords famsite” error.<BR>> > ><BR>> >
> That rather sounds like the path /passwd/passwords does not exist or
<BR>> > is not<BR>> > > writable.<BR>> > ><BR>> >
<BR>> > Well, I just tried chomd 777 passwords and still the same
problem.<BR>> <BR>> Can you show us what the result of the<BR>>
<BR>> ls -l /passwd/passwords<BR>> <BR>> command
is?<BR> <BR>Thanks for asking there, actually the problem has
been solved, I deleted the passwords <BR>dir and chmoded 777 the passwd dir
and the unsername and password were created<BR>by htpasswd.<SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=218372602-07042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>chmod to 777
is never a good thing. I believe the file needs to be owned by
root with group ownership to apache at 640. There are also
requirements on the .htaccess file as well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=218372602-07042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>At one time,
and it may still be, there was an example in one of the /etc/httpd
directories</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>using mysql to do
the authentication rather than apache. It might be a little more secure
but not by much if you're not using
SSL.</FONT></SPAN><BR> <BR> <BR><BR></DIV>
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