authenication ----show me!!! would u please!!!

[Fri Jul 20 15:12:07 2001] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] (13)Permission denied: Could not open password file: /home/jenny/apache/.htpasswd


I have chown and chgrp to "jenny" as well as chmod 777 .htpasswd.

The heaven has open its gate yet and I can get in!!!
as the rest of the stuff was show in the same series. I have also

-m paramter in ./htpasswd.


why??? I know freebsd knows this.

Folks, show me to newbie!!!

thanks!!!
Jenny.

If Apache is in a chroot environment (jail) at /home/jenny/apache, then the user Apache runs as has permission to read .htpasswd, which is in the same dir.

Say I am trying read your .htpasswd file via shell (not from web) and my current working directory is /usr/local, I first have to make sure I have READ permission to /home, if I can't even access to /home, then not to mention any subdirs under /home. Say I have access to /home directory, I still need permission to access /home/jenny, then /home/jenny/apache.

That said, chmod'ding .htpasswd to 777 alone doesn't help, you also need to chmod /home /home/jenny and /home/jenny/apache.

What permission should you chmod? That depends on what user Apache runs as. Say nobody, those directories should be chmod'ed 755. 755 is like drwxr-xr-x, note the r-x in bold, that's SEARCH ACCESS to a directory. Having search access allows you to view the directory listing. To allow nobody read access to .htpasswd, it needs to chmod 644, not 777, always minimize the permission if possible.

I solve the problem now on both 7.0 and 7.1 last staruday morning.

Thanks folks!!!


that problem could have been for a long time if
I tried /directory/.htpasswd. it was due to the success implementation in solaris which I used "/export/home/jenny/apache/.htpasswd" and that equivalent to "/home/username/apache/.htpasswd"


jenny.

See, I asked you about whether your path is a symlink or not but you haven't replied to that question.

show me a site for setting sendmail. not sendmail.org but more
simple and easy understand setting up sendmail package for rh 7.1 or 7.0.

jennifer

I asked you (from a message long time ago regarding the same issue) for the absolute file system path to your .htpasswd but you told me the wrong one.

I don't like sendmail because it's not as secure+fast+reliable+configurable as qmail (been using qmail for long time). Google.com has been the best search engine for this kind of stuffs, so start here -> http://www.google.com/search?q=redhat+sendmail