Problem with mod_auth_dbm

[Jim McKinney_3]

I am having difficulty with the mod_auth_dbm module that came with HPWS (Apache v2.0.50). In a nutshell, the process that creates the DBM files seems to be working fine. The dbmmanage application can read the DBM files just fine. However, Apache can only authenticate some of the users in a given database.

A little more detail: we have a perl script that selects data from an Informix database and uses dbmmanage to create a DBM file. The users are not put in the DBM file in the order they are selected (I don't know why). It does seem to be consistent, no matter how I change the select statement (and affect the number of users being added at a given time), the same users are always unable to authenticate (conversely, the ones that work seem to continue to work). When I have dbmmanage "check" the credentials, however, the usernames and passwords work fine. We have another system running an older HP Apache (v2.0.22) and the exact same scripts (same versions, same everything), and it authenticates correctly.

Is that enough information for someone to offer any suggestions? If not, I can probably add more if it will get some help...