Jens and Vincenzo, You both got me on the right track. Yes, there was a Group directive that was set to "nobody". I didn't even realize that the processes could run under a group that the User was not a member of. Once I updated the Group to "apache", everything worked fine! Thanks! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jens-U. Mozdzen [mailto:jmozdzen@xxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 5:29 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: htpasswd permissions Hi Dave, Zitat von "Isenhower, Dave" <dave.isenhower@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > We’re running prefork. I can see the processes running under the > correct user: > > $ ps -ef | grep httpd > apache 14638 26766 0 11:32 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -d > /www/etc/apache/config -c Pidfile /web/logs/pid-files/httpd.pid -f > /www/etc/apache/config/httpd.conf > > $ groups apache > apache : apache > > Even adding read and execute to others on the config directory isn’t > sufficient. I still have to add read to the htpasswd file itself. > > Thanks, > Dave have you double-checked the effective user/group of your processes? # ps -ax -o pid,euser,egroup,args|grep httpd Regards, Jens --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx