RE: [users@httpd] spurious 'user not found' with basic auth

[Joost de Heer <sa...@xs4all.nl>]

Boyle Owen said:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Daniel McBrearty
>>
>> Mostly this works absolutely fine. But occasionally one of my
>> users has trouble
>> logging in. In the logs I can see :
>>
>> [Mon Oct  3 08:08:09 2005] [error] [client 220.237.229.210]
>> user whoever not
>> found: /path
>
> A few questions...
>
> - is the username in a logfile a real user in the passwords file? (NB:
> check case)
> - what does the user experience (repeated login prompt?, 401?)
> - password OK?
> - what type of client?

And one more: How many lines does your AuthUserFile file have? I've heard
that if there are too many ('too many' being rather undefined
unfortunately) lines in an AuthUserFile file, then Apache might fail now
and then.

Joost


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