[CentOS] basic auth fails

Fri Jun 22 21:05:29 UTC 2012
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 21.06.2012 16:03, schrieb Tim Dunphy:
> 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

No, you are not.

> 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

Not a CentOS kernel and that one is highly vulnerable.

> Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
> Server built:   Nov 14 2011 18:03:07

Not a CentOS versions of Apache. A vulnerable Apache release.

> 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

Alexander