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WWW Form Bug Report: "DBM Authentication w/o a group or with a DBM group" on Linux
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Thank you.
<Aram>

>X-POP3-Rcpt: awm@luers.qosina.com
>From: mbrennen@fni.com
>To: awm@qosina.com
>Date: Fri Oct 13 13:14:30 1995
>Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "DBM Authentication w/o a group or with a DBM
group" on Linux
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>Submitter: mbrennen@fni.com
>Operating system: Linux, version: 1.2.13
>Extra Modules used:
>URL exhibiting problem:
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>Symptoms:
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>I'm using DBM auth on 8.14, and it is working with a standard group file.
If I try to run DBM auth without a group file (my preference), then httpd
cores. If I try to run a DBM group file it cores also, but I may not have
the DBM group file set up correctly. That is undocumented, or I have not
found it on the www.apache.org pages yet. I tried creating a DBM group file
by using the group name as the password, as below; I have no idea if this is
correct. I also added an entry with the group- and username reversed.
Neither worked; I didn't expect the latter to work. dbmmanage grpfile
adduser username groupname I am having trouble getting a core file, so I
have not been able to debug this. With all this as a background, I have two
questions: 1. Does anyone have DBM auth running without a group file?
As I understand it the group file should not be necessary (certainly
shouldn't core!). 2. What is the method for building a DBM group file?
Does the DBM gro!
> up work at all? Thanks, Michael Brennen
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Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
Apache httpd server team http://www.apache.org
Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "DBM Authentication w/o a group or with a DBM group" on Linux [ In reply to ]
> I'm using DBM auth on 8.14, and it is working with a standard group file.
> If I try to run DBM auth without a group file (my preference), then httpd
> cores.

Try setting the AuthGroupFile to /dev/null. Though yes, it would be "the
path of least astonishment" if AuthGroupFile was set to /dev/null by
default.

Brian

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