[K12OSN] BackupPC Question

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Wed Dec 7 17:27:06 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:20, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:17:50 -0600, Jim Kronebusch wrote
> > > /var/log/apache2/error.log have anything interesting about not being 
> > > able to find or read the htpasswd file?
> > 
> > Here is the error message from the error.log:
> > 
> > [Mon Dec 05 18:05:17 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] user backuppc:
> > authentication failure for "/backuppc": Password Mismatch
> > 
> > Do you have a suggestion for how to reset the password?
> 
> Turns out this was another sudo problem :-)  I keep forgetting to issue sudo
> before commands so that I have enough priveleges to make changes.  Once I
> reran the httpasswd command with sudo in front it worked.

That was going to be my suggestion.  I never get used to the ubuntu
concept of sudo, so I always 'sudo su -' anyway instead of retyping it
on every command.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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