After upgrade from Redhat 7.3 to RedHat Enterprise 3, none of the users can authenticate with the webserver. Steps to reproduce: Create htpassword file with a user and password encrypted with MD5 Try to authenticate Authentication works Alter encrytion of the same user to crypt Try to authenticate Authentication works Alter encryption of the same user to SHA-1 Try to authenticate Authentication fails. Error log reports: [Wed Mar 31 16:12:17 2004] [error] [client 192.168.66.234] user testuser: authentication failure for "/party/admin/new": Password Mismatch. The workaround may be to convert all passwords to MD5, but since I don't have a list over all the users passwords this is not an option.
Thanks for the report. This is a regression in 2.0, we can make fixed packages available for testing shortly.
Packages which include the fix for this issue are now available for testing purposes from: http://people.redhat.com/jorton/Taroon-httpd/. The fix will be included in future httpd updates for RHEL3.
The test packages sovled my problem. Thanx!
Closing out based on feedback from original reporter.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-349.html