RE: How do I disable PAM?

        I think you need to look at the htpasswd program's man page.  The
passwords are not stored in /etc/password.


>  I have a Apache2 configuration which does htaccess based authentication
> to
> give read/write 
> access to a particular directory. Even if the user enters correct
> userid/passwd combination, the 
> access  to a directory is being denied. I believe this is because my
> system
> uses PAM for user 
> authentication. To fix this, I suppose I need to compile Apache with
> mod_auth_pam ( I am not
> sure whether the current mod_auth_pam will work on Apache2) 
> 
> I don't want to go through all this because I am just building a demo
> system
> and I want 
> to keep everything simple.
> 
>