bandmin password doesn't work???

[rs-freddo]

I am assuming that the bandmin password feature is supposed to protect
http://my.server.com/bandwidth/

Doesn't seem to on my server??
7.4.0 s12
Anyone else? or am I doing something completely wrong??

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[rs-freddo]

So what does it do? Does it write a .htaccess file in /usr/local/bandmin/htdocs/
????

If i could figure out what it's supposed to write and where, I could maybe track down why it's not doing it.

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[jackal]

believe that is correct write .htaccess file at the path you specified above believe you can change password in whm

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[DWHS.net]

I was wondering what that was for, very cool new option.

I havn't checked if it works for me or not yet though, hope it does

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[tAzMaNiAc]

It works great for me!

E23 here.

Brenden

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[MySundown]

I'm going to sound really stupid here, but what username and password does it use to login? I tried my root password and it wouldn't let me in.

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[MySundown]

Wait, I figured it out. You have to add a user to /usr/local/bandmin/passwd (using .htpasswd formatting).

But something weird is going on with mine. The only month that's showing up is May (that's when the server was setup). Yet it's saying

Last updated Sat Aug 9 12:55:22 2003

Any ideas?

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[rs-freddo]

OK, mine is writing the "passwd" file but not writing the .htaccess file. Can someone post their .htaccess file contents...

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[rs-freddo]

contents of .htaccess should be:

AuthUserFile /usr/local/bandmin/passwd
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

Just to answer my own question...

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