On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 17:39 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > In *some" cases, usernames are added to the password file, and the > password verifies correctly (using 'htppasswd -v ...'), but Apache > still throws an error, e.g.: > > [Sat Apr 29 17:12:10.790251 2023] [authz_core:error] [pid 17622:tid 17769] [client 82.69.61.82:40716] AH01631: user notatest: authorization failure for "/": > > (NB: "authorization failure", not "authentication failure" as with a > password mismatch.) > > Since these are all fictitious users (i.e. not local UIDs) I don't > understand what's going on. Either it should always work or always > fail. I can't say that I've experienced that. Are there unusual (non-ASCII) characters in the username or passwords that fail oddly? -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.8-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 22 19:14:19 UTC 2023 x86_64 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
