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| <strong>NAME</strong> |
| htdigest - Create and update user authentication files |
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| <strong>SYNOPSIS</strong> |
| <strong>htdigest </strong>[ -<strong>c </strong>] <em>passwdfile realm username</em> |
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| <strong>DESCRIPTION</strong> |
| <strong>htdigest </strong>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 <strong>httpd</strong> |
| Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed |
| in the files created by <strong>htdigest.</strong> |
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| This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For |
| details of the directives necessary to configure digest |
| authentication in <strong>httpd </strong>see the Apache manual, which is part |
| of the Apache distribution or can be found at |
| http://www.apache.org/. |
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| <strong>OPTIONS</strong> |
| -c Create the <em>passwdfile</em>. If <em>passwdfile </em>already exists, it |
| is deleted first. |
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| <em>passwdfile</em> |
| 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. |
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| <em>realm</em> |
| The realm name to which the user name belongs. |
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| <em>username</em> |
| The user name to create or update in <strong>passwdfile</strong>. If |
| <em>username </em>does not exist is this file, an entry is |
| added. If it does exist, the password is changed. |
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| <strong>SEE ALSO</strong> |
| <strong>httpd(8)</strong> |
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