htpasswd —
create and update user authentication files
htpasswd is used to create and update user
authentication files for HTTP daemons.
The options are as follows:
-I- Switch to batch mode.
htpasswd reads exactly one
line from standard input and splits it at the first “:”. The
first part is the login, the second part is the password which
htpasswd then hashes using
bcrypt(3).
htpasswd prompts for a password and
generates a hash using bcrypt(3). A line
suitable for a password file is written to the standard output. If invoked
with two arguments (or one argument if the -I flag
is used) user authentication file is updated.
This reimplemented version of htpasswd has been
available since OpenBSD 5.6.
Florian Obser
<florian@openbsd.org>
implemented htpasswd from scratch after Apache httpd
was removed from OpenBSD base.
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