[plug] Apache gurus

[Craig Dyke]

I have been trying to do some of the tutorials that come with apache so as to 
better aquaint myself.

In the area of authentication the tutorial presents three different types of 
password verification.
Both the Basic and Digest roles I have been able to utilise. My problem is in 
the third of using a database. Specifically, the tutorial directs me to use 
dbmmanage, which is supplied with apache.
The following is the demo:


	dbmmanage passwords.db adduser montressor

This produces a file called 'passwords' (without db extension) which is around 
12K in size. Then the instructions direct you to the .htaccess config file 
where you enter:

AuthName "Members Only"
AuthType Basic
AuthDBUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords
require user montressor

Once trying to access the web page associated a server error appears. I have 
traced the error (i think) to the db file as when I try to use any of the 
other commands associated with dbmmanage they all produce the corresponding 
error to the particular command :((

eg.	dbmmanage passwords check montressor
	Sorry, user `montressor' doesn't exist!

Can someone please explain how to get this all to work??

Craig