Re: [viewvc-users] Apache basic authentication not working

Alan Dayley wrote:
>> Any chance you're able to see the page because your browser has cached the
>> auth privilege information and is providing it on your behalf without
>> prompting?
> 
> I thought of that. I use Firefox almost exclusively. To test the authentication I cranked up Internet Explorer, knowing I have not used it for ViewVC in a long, long time, if ever. No authentication request was presented, just straight into the pages.
> 
>> Do the Apache logs you referenced show that you anonymously
>> accessed the ViewVC pages (typically depicted by showing a username of "-")?
> 
> Hm... Good tip. Answer is yes, as in the two sample lines below:
> 
> 10.x.x.71 - - [16/Apr/2009:15:44:10 -0700] "GET /viewvc/ HTTP/1.1" 200 10213 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;
>  Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8"
> 10.148.14.71 - - [16/Apr/2009:15:44:11 -0700] "GET /viewvc-static/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://server/viewvc/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8"

So, I would expect that you have a location block like so:

  <Location /viewvc>
      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "ViewVC Access"
      AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file
      Require valid-user
  </Location>

Is that correct?

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