Benjamin Suto wrote: > I've been trying to set up mod_roaming, and I have had no luck. Apache > will not authenticate anyone, but Netscape seems to find the server and > it will try to log in. > > I've also tried to make a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file in my > public_html directory, and it will not even authenticate a user I've > created with htpasswd. Authentication seems to be broken completely in > my copy of Apache. > > I've worked with Apache for quite a while and I have no idea why this > would be happening. I've never had problems like this with > authentication.
Try removing the libapache-mod-auth-sys and use the .htpasswd file. If you use shadow and libapache-mod-auth-sys, you have to run apache as group shadow - a large security hole, IMHO. -- see shy jo
