[cobalt-users] htaccess on RAQ3

["Graham Nichols" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting my htaccess to perform correctly.  I have a
htaccess file in the directory which I wish to protect with the following
entries:

AuthUserFile /users
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Authorised User's Only"
AuthType Basic
require bill

my users file in the '/' directory was created with

htpasswd -c users graham

and I inputted the password twice as requested.   The users files had its
permissions set with

chmod a+rx users

When I enter the directory which requires protection via my web client (MS
Explorer 5.5) it asks for the user name and password as requested. Inputting
the correct user name and password has no effect, and after the third
attempt it returns the 'no authorisation' error page.

What am I doing wrong please?   Is the user 'graham' also required to be a
valid linux login user?

kind regards,


Graham Nichols.