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

[Ursula <ursulasays@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- "Brian N. Smith" <support@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
---- 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!


Thank god for that! I'd already attempted that fix but
didn't realise the line was the very first one in the
file before the usual chunk of comments and didn't see
it first time I checked httpd.conf.

It doesn't explain to me why Cobalts Knowledgebase
says flat out that it won't work anymore - you'd think
they'd post the fix instead. Are these 550s giving
anyone grey hair? sheesh.



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Ursula


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