[plug] Apache gurus

[Jeff Williams]

Like someone asked earlier, if you do:

dbmmanage passwords aduser montressor
dbmmanage passwords view

what do you get?

Jeff

Craig Dyke wrote:

>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
>
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