amaring — Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:24:00 +0000

All the encryption is, is the password crypted (in perl)...
$password = crypt("mypass", "l1" );
put it in a file
username:y1kR9kDCFnMtQ

That's how the script's do it.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html#Basic

<<edited by Patrick A. Baer - added a space to avoid smiley>>

issam — Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:10:00 +0000

you need to use htpasswd
here how to use it:
htpasswd pass.txt username

and it will prompt you for the password.
to create a neww password file use -c
htpasswd -c passwordfile username
to find where is htpasswd type at the telnet prompt
find / -name 'htpasswd'

regards

fairhousing — Mon, 31 May 1999 21:38:00 +0000

Their an excellent page with all the info you'd ever need on .htaccess at my search directory, link is below in my signature. Just do a search for .htaccess and you'll be on your way to infinite knowledge of .htaccess.

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Joseph Bannon — Mon, 31 May 1999 18:41:00 +0000

You'll have to get a script to do it. The password has to be encrypted.

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