On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:48:37PM +1030, Richard Russell wrote: > I've been told that iPlanet requires an LDAP server to do any > authentication. If this is indeed the case, I'm pretty dissappointed. > Whatever happenned to making the simple things simple? Anyway, now I > need to install an LDAP server and work out how to configure it for > the simple task of one username and password... sigh. OK, problem solvered. LDAP is not needed, as a number of people pointed out... It's just the default. To enable .htaccess style authentication, I followed directions as stated in http://docs.sun.com/source/816-5682-10/esaccess.htm#1011810, specifically the sections titled: "Enabling .htaccess from the User Interface" and "Enabling .htaccess from magnus.conf" (which was half-done automatically, but step 6 was not...) I then had to edit the generated.https-<server>.acl file, and remove an ACL I had earlier added, so it would use the .htaccess and _not_ try to do anything funky with a non-existing LDAP server. From there, I needed to create the htaccess and htpasswd files. I used /usr/iplanet/servers/bin/https/bin/htpasswd to create the htpasswd file, but needed to edit my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/iplanet/servers/bin/https/lib/ before it would run correctly. After a virtual server restart or two (well, I did this by trial and error), it all worked. Thanks go to the following people: Lee Trujillo, Jignesh Pathak, Lee Heagney, Kendall Lloyd and especially Marcus Groff. rr -- Richard Russell Yellow Goanna P/L e: richard@yellowgoanna.com m: +61 412 827 805 f: +61 8 8462 2362 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Dec 6 11:17:11 2002
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