Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 15:08:21 +0000 From: Carlos Amengual <amengual@sadeya.cesca.es> To: Alex Nash <alex@fa.tdktca.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES vs MD5 Message-ID: <31B845E5.1681@sadeya.cesca.es> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960606004824.21478A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> <31B7140C.3014@sadeya.cesca.es> <31B70A3A.587DDF88@fa.tdktca.com> <31B75ECB.1007@sadeya.cesca.es> <31B74A7D.6D10540B@fa.tdktca.com>
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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/ ==========================================================
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