Comments on: Linux / UNIX generate htpasswd to store username and password with htpasswd command

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:17:40 +0000

Hello-
Before I spend hours trying to figure this out, can someone tell me if it’s possible to read a plain text file consisting of usernames & passwords, encrypt the passwords, and the write the usernames & “encrypted passwords” to a .htpassword file all from within a shellscript that can be run from a daily cronjob?
Any help, advice, suggestions are greatly appreciated…
Thanks, Rick

By: James Dalgarno

James Dalgarno — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:16:25 +0000

Thanks Vivek Gite for the info

Thanks Max Johnson for the additional clarity as I may have ended up having a hell of a job trying to find out what was in the original file :)

Cheers
Dal

By: Max Johnson

Max Johnson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:43:59 +0000

CAUTION: If you use the -c parameter to add a new user, it will start the whole .htpaswd file from scratch, wiping any previous users/passwords.

To add more users to an existing .htpasswd file, be sure to leave out the -c.

Just a heads up, as I don’t think this was defined clearly enough in the article, and caused me about 5 minutes of ‘fun’ just before :P

By: Hari Karam Singh

Hari Karam Singh — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:50:19 +0000

FYI, I just had an issue where htpasswd’s folder wasn’t in the path. Instead it was in

/usr/local/apache/bin/

So I just added an alias to .bashrc:

alias htpasswd=”/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd”