[horde] Help setting up passwd authentication

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von dave--uk <drbeaker at gmail.com>:

> Hi.  I'm trying to set up Horde on a Centos-4 box using passwd
> authentication.  If I set Horde up to use a fixed username and
> password it works.  When I change it to use passwd authentication &
> login (using the same credentials) it fails: I just get represented
> with the login screen, with no error message displayed.  The log file
> contains:
>
> Dec 18 11:20:33 HORDE [error] [horde] FAILED LOGIN for testuser
> [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] to Horde [on line 116 of
> "/usr/share/horde/login.php"]
>
> so obviously something isn't right.  I've tried it using the
> /etc/passwd file (which is obviously correct) and I know the
> credentials are right, but I still get the same error.  I've also
> created a separate passwd file but that didn't help.

Does the passwd really contain the passwords, is it readable by the  
web server, and did you specify the correct cryting method?

Jan.

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