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<DIV class=EC_EC_OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>>>>>> Does the /passwd directory exist?<BR>>>>> <BR>>>>>It does now. It did not when I first ran the command, however <BR>>>>>I just created the directory /passwd/passwords<BR>>>>>and re ran the command as root, and still no luck.<BR><SPAN class=EC_EC_125150814-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>>>> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_EC_125150814-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>>>>I think you only need to create the directory /passwd, then use 'touch' to create the file, passwords</FONT> </SPAN><BR></DIV>
<DIV>>>>Thanks Thomas,</DIV>
<DIV>>> </DIV>
<DIV>>>Not familiar with the "touch" command, can you point me to info on it, or show</DIV>
<DIV>>>the command syntax?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000>>Not sure if htpasswd creates the password file. If not, the as root, run: touch passwords ,in the </FONT> <FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000>/passwd directory. It will be an empty file, but the 'htpasswd -c' should create this for you.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008></SPAN>> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>>I think you have a permissions problem so if you create the passwrds file with touch, you probably won't be able to add the password to it using htpasswd either.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>>Where are you creating these directories? In the past when I used this, my passwd directory was /var/www/passwd/</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I created /passwd/passwords in the main directory / and then ran the /usr/bin/htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords famsite command.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=EC_468195314-06042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I chmoded 777 the passwords dir so I don't think that's the problem. I'm doing this as root.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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