Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ550 and .htaccess cut off at the knees

["Brian N. Smith" <support@xxxxxxxxxx>]

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ursula" 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] RAQ550 and .htaccess cut off at the knees


> According to the Cobalt knowledgebase, the latest
> updates to the Raq550 have excluded using .htaccess
> for system user authentication (auth_pam is gone
> completely) - which also makes the webalizer pkgs for
> the 550 redundant to a certain extent. They still work
> fine without using the .htaccess protection, but
> that's hardly an optimal solution. The same problem is
> encountered for any other software or website that
> relies on system user authentication rather than a
> authuserfile, like some phpmyadmin configs, etc.
> 
> I'm completely perplexed by this - How could they just
> remove functionality like that and ignore the
> multitude of consequences?
> 

There has been like 50 post fixes for this :-)

pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

scroll down for the following line
LoadModule pam_external_auth_module modules/mod_auth_pam_external.so

It is before the "ClearModuleList" ... remove it!

Search down a little bit more, you will see
#LoadModule pam_external_auth_module modules/mod_auth_pam_external.so

Uncomment that line ... save the file, and then restart apache

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

There you go joe, it works now!

Brian N. Smith
NuOnce Networks
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