I think you need to look at the htpasswd program's man page. The passwords are not stored in /etc/password. > I have a Apache2 configuration which does htaccess based authentication > to > give read/write > access to a particular directory. Even if the user enters correct > userid/passwd combination, the > access to a directory is being denied. I believe this is because my > system > uses PAM for user > authentication. To fix this, I suppose I need to compile Apache with > mod_auth_pam ( I am not > sure whether the current mod_auth_pam will work on Apache2) > > I don't want to go through all this because I am just building a demo > system > and I want > to keep everything simple. > >
