>>>I think you only need to create the directory /passwd, then use 'touch' to create the file, passwords
>>>Thanks Thomas,
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>>Not familiar with the "touch" command, can you point me to info on it, or show
>>the command syntax?
>Not sure if htpasswd creates the password file. If not, the as root, run: touch passwords ,in the /passwd directory. It will be an empty file, but the 'htpasswd -c' should create this for you.
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>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.
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>Where are you creating these directories? In the past when I used this, my passwd directory was /var/www/passwd/
I created /passwd/passwords in the main directory / and then ran the /usr/bin/htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords famsite command.
I chmoded 777 the passwords dir so I don't think that's the problem. I'm doing this as root.