trying to set a password for a user with:
htpasswd -c .htpasswd USERNAME
(enter the password, then verify)
The response is: "could not determine temp dir"

Anyone know how to fix this?

What version of apache? And are you doing this as root or a user? Try as root if not already.

apache 2.0.50 and I am logged in as su -

See RedHat Bug 130405,
128494,
128144,
128461...


HTH, I'm now trying to fix this...


Updating to apr 0.9.4-2.1 fixed it

I'm having this same problem. logged in as root. I'm not sure my system version. how do i find out?

>I'm having this same problem. logged in as root. I'm not sure my system version. how do i find out?

/usr/sbin/httpd -v

Note that you need to update the "apr" package, not the webserver. To find out your version of the apr package, type

rpm -q apr

how to update depends on what package manager you are using on top of rpm. If you have apt installed, it would be

apt-get install apr

(yes apt woks great on redhat/fedora!) Others like rug or uptodate work similar. If you have a graphical interface for installing packages, just find apr there. You can also download and install the package manually, the command is

rpm -U the-package-file.rpm

but beware the dependency-hell

HTH