[cobalt-users] HTACCESS

[Howard <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a good one that I can't figure out:

I have :
/home/sites/home/cgi-bin/pw/

I want to password protect this directory.
I have:
.htaccess:

require valid-user
AuthName EnterPW
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/sites/home/cgi-bin/pw/.htpasswd  


I then did usr/sbin/htpasswd ?c /home/sites/home/cgi-bin/.htpasswd
username 

However, when the password box comes up. It doesn't work.
Any ideas why?

Thanks




At 05:19 PM 6/22/00 +0100, you wrote:
> Actually, I missed a bit:
>
> > > A couple of days on this list someone posted the directions
> > > to change it so 
> > > that you can have full root access when you ftp.
> > 
> > I missed those, but a little investigation show that...
> > 
> > > Can you please post this and to reconfirm, if I just need 
> > > root access via 
> > > ftp for a short while, I can just uncomment what I changed
> > > for it to go 
> > > back to they it was?
> > 
> > ..."all" you need to do is to edit /etc/ftpusers and
> remove 
> > or # out root
> > from the file.
> > 
> > Of course, you know this is a VERY BAD idea. This means your 
> > root password
> > is flying across the internet in clear text. If you really 
> > must do this,
> > immediately change the file back *AND* change your admin/root 
> > password at
> > the same time.
>
> You also need to add the following line to /etc/proftpd.conf
>
> RootLogin on
>
> Then restart inetd:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Michaelson
>
> Way to the Web Ltd
> Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
> http://www.waytotheweb.com
>
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