Re: [squid-users] backup password file

hi

well do it this way
ftp u r server and then type bin command
and transer the file to any server u like
cause i minght be the transfering in ascii format

Regards
Avanger

----- Original Message -----
From: Henrik Nordström <hno@marasystems.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:17 am
Subject: Re: [squid-users] backup password file

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, dfgbgdf bgfbgf wrote:
>
> > How to save the password file ? I would like to save this file
> for security
> > and use it on a second server if the first is shutdown.
> >
> > I am trying to save my password file with ftp command.
> > My problem : when i copy (reload) my password file from ftp
> server (windows
> > 2000) to squid server the authentication doesn't works. The
> password seems
> > corrupt because I must rewrite all passwords for all users !!!
>
> Should work fine. The NCSA password file is just a text file with
> two
> fields
>
> username:encrypted_password_hash
>
> where the encrypted_password_hash field is encrypted using the
> standardUNIX crypt() algorithm.
>
> But it might be a ftp transfer problem.. make sure you transfer
> the file
> using ascii transfer mode when transferring between Windows and
> UNIX. (the
> ascii or text ftp command)
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 02:42:32 MDT