Effect

Specifies that the named user file is to be used for any user names referenced in a require user or require valid-user directive.

Note that the use of groups-with-users=yes in the Init fn=htaccess-init directive in obj.conf, or specifying an AuthGroupFile directive with the same filename, causes that file to be assumed to be in the format:

username:DES-encrypted-password:comma-separated-list-of-groups