Re: [gentoo-user] Apache upgrade to 2.4 error AH00027: Buggy authn provider failed to set user

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use
> the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things
> and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the
> anonymously available front page, it returns a 500 and error.log
> shows;
>
> [Tue Apr 03 16:13:33.595505 2012] [core:error] [pid 20896:tid
> 139858125358848] [client u.x.y.z:16567] AH00027: Buggy authn provider
> failed to set user for /
>
> At a password protected directory (there's an .htaccess) it also
> returns 500 and the log is;
> [Tue Apr 03 16:15:50.244851 2012] [core:alert] [pid 20895:tid
> 139858125358848] [client u.x.y.z:20702] /blah/blah/.htaccess: Invalid
> command 'Require', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not
> included in the server configuration
>
> Shouldn't "Require" from the .htaccess file be recognised by
> mod_access_compat? Any ideas about the AH00027 error?
>

Possibly related?
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52950