> This is sort of a .htpasswd <-> BackupPC compatibility thing. You have a
> permissions error. Try opening up your config.pl file (via console, with
> root priveleges), look for the variables $Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup} and
> '$Conf{CGIAdminUsers}', and read the associated documentation. Also, you
> might want to try using 'backup_admin' instead; since the username values
> are space-delineated, and I can't make any guarantees on how that field is
> parsed right now.
>
> Adios,
Dear Paul,
Thanks for ur quick reply
by the way u were right
actually had genarated a username and password using htpasswd for apache
and the username was backupadmin n password xxxxxxx
now in my main conf.pl file i had '$Conf{CGIAdminUsers}' as 2 users
backuppc and simon which were system created users . i jus added the third
entry that is backupadmin and everthin worked like a charm
thnks and really apprecite for the reply
regards
simon
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Benedict simon <simon AT kmun.gov DOT kw>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have just installed Backup PC and configured
>> intially i had some problem but all sorted out thnks to gooling n
>> mailing
>> list help
>>
>> actually i had a problem with user authentication with apache but i
>> disabled the feature since it was in test phase
>>
>> i managed to backup succesfull a couple of windows machine and works
>> beautiful
>>
>> now i enabled user authentication for apache .. i do get promted for
>> username and password when i start but after authenticatin the following
>> thing happen
>>
>> the page is displayed but not correctly
>> on the left i only see
>> status and host summary
>>
>> when i select host i dont see any hosts
>>
>> also the backup server status screen is not updated correct
>>
>> in my httpd logs i dont see any error message
>>
>>
>> here is the authentication lines in httpd.conf
>>
>> </Directory>
>> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
>> SetHandler perl-script
>> PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
>> PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
>> Options +ExecCGI
>> Order deny,allow
>> Deny from all
>> Allow from 172.16.10.0
>> AuthName "Backup Admin"
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htaccess
>> Require valid-user
>>
>> </Directory>
>>
>>
>> if i disble this autentication backuppc works perfect but i need also to
>> hav the user authentication for apache
>>
>> i did try a lot. dont know where i cd be goin wrong
>> apprecite your help
>>
>> regards
>>
>> simon
>>
>>
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