From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 06:13:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13508 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 06:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (blanco.sadeya.cesca.es [192.94.163.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA13502 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 06:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyan ([193.148.6.29]) by blanco.sadeya.cesca.es (8.6.11/8.7.0) with SMTP id PAA14191; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:09:57 +0200 Message-ID: <31B845E5.1681@sadeya.cesca.es> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 15:08:21 +0000 From: Carlos Amengual Organization: SADEYA X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Nash CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES vs MD5 References: <31B7140C.3014@sadeya.cesca.es> <31B70A3A.587DDF88@fa.tdktca.com> <31B75ECB.1007@sadeya.cesca.es> <31B74A7D.6D10540B@fa.tdktca.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex Nash wrote: > > Carlos Amengual wrote: > > > I'd also check your HTTP log files (particularly the error log), it may not > > > be looking in the right place for the password file (possible configuration > > > error in access.conf). > > > > >From my error_log file: > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > [Thu Jun 6 22:24:49 1996] access to /privado/ failed for blanco.sadeya.cesca.es > > , reason: user amengual: password mismatch > > [Thu Jun 6 22:25:00 1996] access to /privado/ failed for blanco.sadeya.cesca.es > > , reason: user amengual: password mismatch > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > It's time to use the source, Luke. Can you apply the following patch to > mod_auth and see what happens? This will tell you what Apache is comparing. > > Alex It seems silly, but I did nothing and now it works. The only difference was that now I used a different dialup connection. With another machine that has the CERN WWW server installed, sometimes I have users reporting me that their passwords are not recognized during a session, but never experienced it myself (in fact I was not trusting these reports very much). I have only one thing in common with them: I get to the Internet through a proxy (the CERN httpd proxy in my case). I found that using this proxy I sometimes have problems when sending information to a Web server via the POST method, and at W3C Web site I read that some earlier versions of the W3C reference library caused such problems; supposedly, the version of the library that my proxy has is free from this, but I do experience it, and perhaps it loosely relates to the password problem. Well, I simply have no better hypothesis. If someone else observes a similar behaviour with a proxy, I would appreciate hearing about it, otherwise the problem should be considered as solved. Many thanks. ========================================================== Carlos Amengual - Sociedad Astronómica de España y América Avenida Diagonal, 377, 2 - 08008 Barcelona - Spain amengual@sadeya.cesca.es - http://www.sadeya.cesca.es/ ==========================================================