Пункт 72. Manual Page: htdigest
htdigest is used to create and update the flat-files used
to store usernames, realm and password for digest authentication 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/.
Synopsis
htdigest [ -c ]
passwdfile realm username
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.
