dbmmanage
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Name
dbmmanage - Manage user authentication files in DBM format
Synopsis
dbmmanage [ encoding ] filename
add|adduser|check|delete|update username [ encpasswd [
group[,group...] [ comment ] ] ]
dbmmanage filename view [ username ]
dbmmanage filename import
Description
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NAME
dbmmanage - Manage user authentication files in DBM format
SYNOPSIS
dbmmanage [ encoding ] filename
add|adduser|check|delete|update username [ encpasswd [
group[,group...] [ comment ] ] ]
dbmmanage filename view [ username ]
dbmmanage filename import
SUMMARY
dbmmanage is used to create and update the DBM format files
used to store usernames and password for basic authentica-
tion of HTTP users via mod_authn_dbm. Resources available
from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted to just the
users listed in the files created by dbmmanage. This program
can only be used when the usernames are stored in a DBM
file. To use a flat-file database see htpasswd.
This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For
details of the directives necessary to configure user
authentication in httpd see the httpd manual, which is part
of the Apache distribution or can be found at
http://httpd.apache.org/.
OPTIONS
filename
The filename of the DBM format file. Usually without
the extension .db, .pag, or .dir.
username
The user for which the operations are performed. The
username may not contain a colon (:).
encpasswd
This is the already encrypted password to use for the
update and add commands. You may use a hyphen (-) if
you want to get prompted for the password, but fill in
the fields afterwards. Additionally when using the
update command, a period (.) keeps the original pass-
word untouched.
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group
A group, which the user is member of. A groupname may
not contain a colon (:). You may use a hyphen (-) if
you don't want to assign the user to a group, but fill
in the comment field. Additionally when using the
update command, a period (.) keeps the original groups
untouched.
comment
This is the place for your opaque comments about the
user, like realname, mailaddress or such things. The
server will ignore this field.
Encodings
-d crypt encryption (default, except on Win32, Netware)
-m MD5 encryption (default on Win32, Netware)
-s SHA1 encryption
-p plaintext (not recommended)
Commands
add Adds an entry for username to filename using the
encrypted password encpasswd. dbmmanage passwords.dat
add rbowen foKntnEF3KSXA
adduser
Asks for a password and then adds an entry for username
to filename. dbmmanage passwords.dat adduser krietz
check
Asks for a password and then checks if username is in
filename and if it's password matches the specified
one. dbmmanage passwords.dat check rbowen
delete
Deletes the username entry from filename. dbmmanage
passwords.dat delete rbowen
import
Reads username:password entries (one per line) from
STDIN and adds them to filename. The passwords already
have to be crypted.
update
Same as the adduser command, except that it makes sure
username already exists in filename. dbmmanage pass-
words.dat update rbowen
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view Just displays the contents of the DBM file. If you
specify a username, it displays the particular record
only. dbmmanage passwords.dat view
BUGS
One should be aware that there are a number of different DBM
file formats in existence, and with all likelihood,
libraries for more than one format may exist on your system.
The three primary examples are SDBM, NDBM, the GNU project's
GDBM, and Berkeley DB 2. Unfortunately, all these libraries
use different file formats, and you must make sure that the
file format used by filename is the same format that dbmman-
age expects to see. dbmmanage currently has no way of deter-
mining what type of DBM file it is looking at. If used
against the wrong format, will simply return nothing, or may
create a different DBM file with a different name, or at
worst, it may corrupt the DBM file if you were attempting to
write to it.
dbmmanage has a list of DBM format preferences, defined by
the @AnyDBM::ISA array near the beginning of the program.
Since we prefer the Berkeley DB 2 file format, the order in
which dbmmanage will look for system libraries is Berkeley
DB 2, then NDBM, then GDBM and then SDBM. The first library
found will be the library dbmmanage will attempt to use for
all DBM file transactions. This ordering is slightly differ-
ent than the standard @AnyDBM::ISA ordering in Perl, as well
as the ordering used by the simple dbmopen() call in Perl,
so if you use any other utilities to manage your DBM files,
they must also follow this preference ordering. Similar care
must be taken if using programs in other languages, like C,
to access these files.
One can usually use the file program supplied with most Unix
systems to see what format a DBM file is in.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+----------------------+
|Availability | web/server/apache-22 |
+---------------+----------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+----------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://ar-
chive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.27.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://httpd.apache.org/.
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