Topic: Priimary i-bay requesting username/passwd

[Jon_Reynolds]

For some odd reason my Primary i-bay is wanting a username/password. I have gone back through the server-manager and looked through the directory but cannot figure out why it is wanting one. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

Thanks for any help,

Jon

[Jon_Reynolds]

Ok, a little more information. I am receiving this in my error_log:
[Sun Aug 22 14:59:12 2004] [error] access to /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html failed for 192.168.5.89, reason: AuthExtern pwauth [/usr/lib/apache/pwauth]: Failed (1) for user

I have found a similiar error in the forums relating to amavis-ng from pagefault.org, which I have installed. There is a problem with amavis when it runs a scan it changes the permissions on /bin/bash. I checked my permissions and they are correct. I am also not running the scan at all.

I am unsure where to look to fix this problem can anyone shed some light on this or give me another direction to look in?

Thanls for any help,

Jon

[Jon_Reynolds]

and a little more info. When the dialog box for username password shows up for the primary i-bay no matter what username/passwd entered for admin or other users nothing works.

Where should I look for this problem? What will make a password prompt pop up? I can't find an .htaccess file anywhere so I don't know where to look.

Please help,

Jon

[Jon_Reynolds]

Ok, I found the problem. Here is my Primary i-bay now:

#------------------------------------------------------------
# Primary ibay directories (Primary i-bay)
#------------------------------------------------------------

<Directory /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html>
    Options Indexes
    Options +Includes
    AllowOverride None
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from all
#    AuthName "Primary i-bay"
#    AuthType Basic
#    AuthExternal pwauth
#    require user Primary
#    Satisfy all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/cgi-bin>
    Options ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from all
 #   AuthName "Primary i-bay"
 #   AuthType Basic
 #   AuthExternal pwauth
 #   require user Primary
 #   Satisfy all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/files>
    AllowOverride None
    order deny,allow
    deny from all
    allow from all
 #   AuthName "Primary i-bay"
 #   AuthType Basic
 #   AuthExternal pwauth
 #   require user Primary
 #   Satisfy all
</Directory>

I commented out all the authentication directives and now it is working. I am at a loss to explain why this happened or how it happened. So if anyone can shed light on this I would be most appreciative.

Thanks,

Jon

[Jon_Reynolds]

I have now tracked down the script that causes this. When I run '/sbin/e-smith/signal-event emailupdate' it causes my httpd.conf file to add authentication for the Primary i-bay.

Has anybody seen this before?

Jon