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htdigest (1)

Name

htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication

Synopsis

htdigest [ -c ] passwdfile realm username

Description




htdigest                                              HTDIGEST(1)



NAME
     htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication


SYNOPSIS
     htdigest [ -c ] passwdfile realm username



SUMMARY
     htdigest is used to create and update the flat-files used to
     store usernames, realm and password for  digest  authentica-
     tion of HTTP users. Resources available from the Apache HTTP
     server can be restricted to just the  users  listed  in  the
     files created by htdigest.


     This  manual page only lists the command line arguments. For
     details of the  directives  necessary  to  configure  digest
     authentication in httpd see the Apache manual, which is part
     of  the   Apache   distribution   or   can   be   found   at
     http://httpd.apache.org/.



OPTIONS
     -c   Create the passwdfile. If passwdfile already exists, it
          is deleted first.

     passwdfile
          Name of the file to contain  the  username,  realm  and
          password.  If  -c  is given, this file is created if it
          does not already exist, or deleted and recreated if  it
          does exist.

     realm
          The  realm  name  to  which  the user name belongs. See
          http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1    for
          more details.

     username
          The  user  name  to  create or update in passwdfile. If
          username does not exist  is  this  file,  an  entry  is
          added. If it does exist, the password is changed.


SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
     This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do not make
     it setuid.






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htdigest                                              HTDIGEST(1)



ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:

     +---------------+----------------------+
     |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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