G 'Day all, I am currently build a Raspberry Garage Door Monitor and Web Page based Remote con...

[G+_Geoff Galley]

G'Day all,

I am currently build a Raspberry Garage Door Monitor and Web Page based Remote control.

I am following instructions in a Magazine called SiliconeChip which has a step by step instruction based over 3 magazines. (Yes I am a Noob) I have had no problems untill I hit this step which allows me access via the web.

The lines are as follows.

 

sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

sudo a2enmod authn_dbm

now come the line I get the problem with

sudo htdbm -c -TSDBM /etc/apache2/dbmpasswd

 

Please see photo of error.

 

I know the the are replaced with real username and password without the <>.

but I cant seem to get passed the 3rd line.

 

I have done a sudo apt-get update, install and reboot.

 

I have tried swapping the -c -TSDBM around, but no luck

[G+_Ben Reese]

I'm not so sure that's an error, but maybe a warning. You can probably get rid of the message by using the "-B" or "-m" options for BCRYPT or MD5. Since MD5 and SHA aren't real secure (maybe fine for this use), BCRYPT would be much better.

 

I suspect you could check the content of the file with:

cat /etc/apache2/dbmpasswd

Since I'm not familiar with htdbm, I don't know what you should expect to see there.

[G+_Tony Martin]

It is not clear to me exactly what you are trying to do here. However, it appears to me that you are trying to create an authentication database. If that is what you are trying to do I would try this (htdbm -c path/filename username). Basically just remove the -TSDBM and password from what you already have, you will have to set the password later.

[G+_David Wiggins]

It looks like the -T switch had several options SDBM, GDBM, DB, and DEFAULT.

 

There should be a space between the switch and option. So that part should be

-T SDBM

Rather than run together. With it together, it is unrecognised as pay out the command.

[G+_Ben Reese]

David Wiggins Doh! I should have caught that last night.

[G+_Geoff Galley]

Thx folks I will try that this week.

[G+_Geoff Galley]

I have tried David's theory but it still refuses to create the file directory.

The next line in the programing is as follows

sudo chown www-data /etc/apache2/dbmpasswd.pag

when I run that line it states that there is no such file or directory

[G+_Tony Martin]

-t and -TDBTYPE are two different things. -t is used for comments while -TDBTYPE is used for specifying the file type. Both are unnecessary unless there is already a file on the system or you want the file you create to be of a specific type. Remember that it is case sensitive. Also if you are set on doing it as the article says try the same line that you have been trying without the password. It should then prompt you for the password.

 

These links may help you. I think the last link will most likely help you the most.

 

httpd.apache.org - htdbm - Manipulate DBM password databases - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4

 

http://man.he.net/man1/htdbm

 

http://howtolamp.com/lamp/httpd/2.4/securing/auth-basic-dbm/

[G+_Geoff Galley]

Thx guys

I got it working by leaving the password out, It then asked me to create one..(as per Tony's suggestion)

Thx again.

A noob at work

[G+_Tony Martin]

Happy to help, if you need anymore help let us know. Good luck on your project and have fun.