Re: [cobalt-users] HTACCESS

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aeron Jarrett <ajarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've had a similar error and it looks like the raq is only allowing users
> that it already knows, ie users that are defined under somesite on the
> server, to actually access via the use of an htaccess file.

The way you have .htaccess configured it's looking for valid users in the /etc/passwd
file.

> so, since my brother doesn't have an account on our raq, I can't make it
> possible for him to access the raq in a personal directory that I created
> to relay things to him using a username/password pair that isn't defined
> in the machine's main passwd file... don't really understand why...

You want to let your *brother* into your RaQ!?  My brother's trouble.  YMMV.
Seriously, you can force .htaccess to look for users from any file you choose.  The
*trick* on the RaQs is to add this magic line to the .htaccess file - <magic
line>AuthPAM_Enabled off</magic line>  This Cobalt KB article describes the rest of
the process pretty well:
http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=htaccess&qid=549&language=1

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}