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To: Seppo Kallio <kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>
cc: Albert Hayden <ahh3v@virginia.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: apache httpd (and ncsa httpd passwd does not work) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:07:43 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:22:36 -0800
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Seppo Kallio wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960117090651.2596C-100000@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Albert Hayden wrote:
> > I've upgraded my system to 2.1 and have installed the apache package.  
> > The password protection files don't work.  It recognizes them, but then 
> > fails while checking the .htpasswd file.  It doesn't return a 
> > misconfiguration error, so I'm unsure what's going on.

> I have same problem with NCSA httpd.

Sudden thought. Perhaps it doesn't like the 60-odd character MD5
passwords that are used by default in FreeBSD unless you install the
DES package? I know that at least xlock had problems with MD5
passwords...

Gary