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Hello people, I'm going crazy trying to get apache (v2.2.6 built Sep 23 2007---the built-in apache in Mac OS X 10.5) to recognize MD5 passwords made using something other than htpasswd -m. The passwords are made using pwunconv on a redhat linux machine, FWIW. When I look at the encrypted passwords from the other machine, I see xxx:$1$sssssss$zzz... which means that the passwords are encrypted using the standard (non- htpasswd) version of md5, as far as I can tell. Apache likes md5 passwords encrypted using htpasswd -m; they look like xxx:$apr1$sssssss$zzz... My version of apache has no problem using passwords added to the bottom of the original file in this fashion. My web server can read only those containing an $apr1$. It cannot interpret those with $1$. The web server on the linux machine apparently can read the non-apache passwords, however. As far as I know, it is running version 2.0.?? of apache. I know nothing about how the apache on the linux machine is configured or how it was built. I'm just trying to use the same files in my AuthUserFile directives, since I can that way use the same passwords as the main server without any mess or fuss. Can anyone give a clue for what I should do to be able to read the non- apache style encryptions? Bill _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
