Re: [LUG] .htaccess !

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alex Charrett wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:54, Neil Stone wrote:
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> > Alex Charrett wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:44, Neil Stone wrote:
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> > >
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> > > > Do the files (passwd access) need to have special perms, uid or gid ? 
> > > > This has been bugging me all weekend and I have finally come to the end 
> > > > of my teather !!
> > >
> > >
> > > I assume that the account apache is running under is able to access
> > > /home/neil/.htpasswd?  That'd be the obvious thing....
> > >
> > > Alex.
> >
> > It has been set to several things, nobody.nogroup at some point....
> >
> > I have now set it to www-data.www-data and still the same !
> >
> > Debian if that makes a difference ?
>
>
> You seem to be misunderstanding the question.  I'm not asking what the
> owner of /home/neil/.htpasswd is, I'm asking you if the webserver
> account can access it.  (ie are the directory perms and the file perms
> granting sufficient access?)
>
> try something like:
>
> # su - nobody -c '/bin/cat /home/neil/.htpasswd'
>
> Where nobody is the username apache runs under.
>
> Alex.

That works... Next ? (now you see the problems i have had ?)
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