On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:12, Craig Dunigan wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Richard Crawford wrote: > > I'm trying to implement Basic authentication for my user directory on my > > server, but it's bombing on me. When I go to the protected site, I'm > > prompted for a username and password as expected; however, the user is > > not authenticated even if they put in the proper username and password. > > > > I'm using Apache 2.0.52 on Fedora Core 3. SELinux is enabled, but the > > security context for the relevant directories has been set properly using > > the chcon command. > > > > The official Apache documentation at > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html offers no advice for my > > situation, neither do any of my Apache books, so I'm obviously missing > > something very basic. > > > > Here's the user_dir portion of my httpd.conf file: > > > > ======================================================= > > <IfModule mod_userdir.c> > > UserDir enable richard jenipurr > > UserDir public_html > > </IfModule> > > > > <Directory /home/*/public_html> > > AllowOverride All > > </Directory> > > ======================================================= > > > > And here's the contents of /home/richard/public_html/.htaccess in the > > directory: > > > > > > ======================================================= > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "Secret Stories" > > AuthUserFile /home/richard/.passwords > > > > require valid-user > > > > ======================================================= > > > > The permissions on both .htaccess and .passwords are set to 644, so > > Apache should be able to read them. I've confirmed -- several times -- > > that the .passwords file exists in the location I've indicated in > > .htaccess. And I've used htpasswd to create the username and password > > several times. > > > > What is going on and how do I fix it? > > I'm guessing that 'nobody' doesn't have privileges to get to > '/home/richard'? Like 0755 on both /home and /home/richard? Nope, that's not it. Tried it and it didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III UC Davis Extension Distance Education Group 2901 K Street Sacramento, CA 95816 (916)327-7793 http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu
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