htpasswd utility error

[Mladen Turk <ml...@mail.inet.hr>]

Hi,
 
Did someone ever tried to test the htpasswd.exe on Windows? (compiled
with VC6 sp4)
It doesn't work since version 2.0.b16.
It can create the file and add the password, but if you try to add the
password to the existing file then it reports:
htpasswd: cannot modify file htpasswd; use '-c' to create it.
 
Well, the file exists so I found out that the function apr_stat returns
the false value for existing file.
Changing the line 358 in htaccess.c from:
    check = apr_stat(&sbuf, fname, APR_FINFO_NORM, NULL);
to:
    check = apr_stat(&sbuf, fname, APR_FINFO_MIN, NULL);
then the htpasswd.exe works normal.
 
 
Mladen Turk
MCSE/GIS Specialist
Sisiceva 10,
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
mailto:mturk@mappingsoft.com
http://www.mappingsoft.com <http://www.mappingsoft.com/> 
 
 

Re: htpasswd utility error (retar 2.0.21?)

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

I believe this is a showstopper for 2.0.21, unless we can agree to push the
support/htpasswd to revision 1.38 and reroll the tarball.

I'm sorry, I believed I had applied both the support/ and srclib/apr/file_io/win32
patches.  Turns out I only fixed APR, but the reason why it was still broken follows...

From: "Mladen Turk" <ml...@mail.inet.hr>
To: <ne...@apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: htpasswd utility error


> Hi,
>  
> Did someone ever tried to test the htpasswd.exe on Windows? (compiled
> with VC6 sp4)
> It doesn't work since version 2.0.b16.
> It can create the file and add the password, but if you try to add the
> password to the existing file then it reports:
> htpasswd: cannot modify file htpasswd; use '-c' to create it.
>  
> Well, the file exists so I found out that the function apr_stat returns
> the false value for existing file.
> Changing the line 358 in htaccess.c from:
>     check = apr_stat(&sbuf, fname, APR_FINFO_NORM, NULL);
> to:
>     check = apr_stat(&sbuf, fname, APR_FINFO_MIN, NULL);
> then the htpasswd.exe works normal.

This was a twofold issue.  One, we really only wanted to know the filetype.
We really didn't want to accept a directory.  

Worse yet, NULL as an apr_pool_t* was completely bogus!!!

If we can push the htpasswd.c tag forward, then we can reroll, this is fixed
in revision 1.38, and otherwise win32 builds fine.

Bill