Patching closedShop
-  Make "cgi-bin" 755 as usual.
 -  Create a "vars" subdirectory in "cgi-bin"; set its ownership and group to "nobody/nogroup" (or "apache/nogroup", as appropriate) and the permissions to 775.
 -  Create an empty ".htpasswd" file in "vars".
 -  Save this patch in your "cgi-bin" and
run 
patch -d . < cS.diff at the prompt
(you may delete the diff file after you've done this.)
 -  Continue to set up closedShop as per the instructions in the article.
 
 -- Ben Okopnik