Hi, well i sent my first e-mail a bit early by mistake... it shoud have included this: The .htaccess file: AuthType Digest AuthName "private area" AuthDigestDomain /private/ AuthDigestProvider dbm AuthDBMType GDBM AuthDBMGroupFile /var/www/users.db AuthDBMUserFile /var/www/users.db Require valid-user BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On DB created with: htdbm -TGDBM -s -c /var/www/users.db user Error: Thu Dec 20 13:36:24 2007] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Digest: user `user' in realm `private area' not found: /private/ ... tried removing the Domain and/or the AuthName... nowthing worked on the other hand, the file based digest works just fine... i.e. AuthType Digest AuthName "private area" AuthDigestDomain /private/ AuthDigestProvider file AuthUserFile /var/www/localhost/htdocs/private/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /var/www/localhost/htdocs/private/.htgroup Require valid-user BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On created with: htdigest /var/www/localhost/htdocs/admin/.htpasswd "private area" username ... what would make the dbm work with digest for me? how do i use htdbm to manage group files or to assign users to groups? thanks in advance... Pavel --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx