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=head1 ERRORS

The most common error is that you are not passing the right authdir to the object.

The authdir needs to exist and contain a user.dat simple text file.
If you do not provide an authdir argument, that's ok, we try to guess for it.
If your script is in /home/myself/cgi-bin/script.pl , then your auth dir is guessed as
/home/myself/cgi-bin/auth
And it must exist and contain the user.dat file. This can be a blank text file to begin with.
Make sure it is chown and chmod properly.

If your cgi is failing, turn on L<DEBUG> and run it again. A lot of useful information may be there.

=head2  Auth::check - Invalid 'User Name' field at ...

Erase your user.dat and recreate.

=head1 users.dat

This file must reside inside your auth dir.