Authentication Problem

I can login as admin and everything works fine...
I can add members & products and the .htgroup & .htpasswd are updated in the data dir.

BUT when I try to login to the members dir I get tossed to the bad login page for my site and get the following message in the server log:

[error] [client 209.179.232.253] user Top: authentication failure for "/members": password mismatch
[Thu Jan 8 07:44:43 2004]

I checked the .htpasswd file and the UN & PW are correct.

I am trying to run AM Free 1.8

Thanks for any help you can give...

PS...
I can login to the member.php without a problem using the same UN & PW

Thanks
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I guess you are using plain-text .htpasswd file for Unix hosting? It won't work - passwords must be encrypted.

It can be switched in config_plugins.inc.php

Hi alex,
Yes it is plain text-Unix... :blink:
DO I change the 1 to a 0 in the following section in config_plugins.inc.php....

############## protect/htpasswd ##############
$pc = array();
$pc['use_plain_text'] = 1;
$plugin_config['protect']['htpasswd'] = $pc;

ps...
the PWs are not encrypted in the MySql database????

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yes.
it is necessary to build different password hashes (.htpasswd requires crypt(), vBulletin integration requies md5() and so on)

Thanks Alex,
changing the 1 to a 0 (zero) did the trick...

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