INRE Re: Fw: [cobalt-users] Fixing the nasty RaQ Hack:
> Dave wrote:
> > About /usr/lib/authenticate and file permissions...
> > I've seen that a lot of people is asking what was
> > the original setting...
> > On my Original rack the value was the following:
> > [root lib]# ls -l authenticate
> > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 18316 Aug 6 20:16 authenticate
> > Once modified it appears as following:
> > [root lib]# ls -l authenticate
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18316 Aug 6 20:16 authenticate
> > I hope not to insult anyone saying that I have no clue why it says
> > rws .. I tought permissions for the first group are always equal to
> > 421 = 7 ... what is the value of s? anyone can help?
> > thank you in advance!
>
> I am having similar problems Dave, changed permissions to 755 and it
hosed
> my .htaccess files.
> Changed it back to 4755 as recommended and the pages are not available,
> this creates an 'internal server configuration error' when requesting
pages
> in a web browser.
>
> Any ideas people? Some of us new folks are struggling a bit with this
one.
>
> Thanks
Marcus
You might try disabling and then re-enabling FrontPage. Believe the
htaccess file has entries in the top that are FrontPage related, and if the
server "believes" it is not enabled, then those entries will cause errors.