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In article <6ucsqh$nlv$1@hubble.csuchico.edu>,
Jawad Ali <jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
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>I would like to learn about password protecting my web page.
>They tell me to make a .htaccess file and then run htpasswd
>like so: htpasswd -c <filename> <username>
>
>They dont mention anything about salt.  htpasswd gives me the
>error: "Usage: htpasswd [salt]"
>
>Any good places to learn more about htpasswd and crypt() etc. ?
>
>Also do many of you use web-authoring tools that work better than
>vi :) and produce relatively clean (minimal) HTML? Just curious.
>
>Jawad


Hey Jawad,

The salt is typically a two character salt, just like what is used in 
crypt(), typically you'd probably want to randomize the generation of
the salt characters when creating the password.  Course it has been 
so long since I used htpasswd, I'd have to check the source on how 
to make it work.  Someone is bound it have this information off the top
of their head.



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According to Jawad Ali <jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu>:
:I would like to learn about password protecting my web page.
:They tell me to make a .htaccess file and then run htpasswd
:like so: htpasswd -c <filename> <username>
:
:They dont mention anything about salt.  htpasswd gives me the
:error: "Usage: htpasswd [salt]"

The local htpasswd command is not the one that they are referring to.
Theirs does significantly more than the simple perl script that I wrote.
The local one merely encrypts an asked-for password using the standard Unix
crypt.  A random salt is chosen unless you enter one on the command line.

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In article <6uecc1$5om$1@hubble.csuchico.edu>,
Pythagoras Watson <py@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>The local htpasswd command is not the one that they are referring to.
>Theirs does significantly more than the simple perl script that I wrote.
>The local one merely encrypts an asked-for password using the standard Unix
>crypt.  A random salt is chosen unless you enter one on the command line.
>

Thanks Py and Rodmur.  This works.






Jawad

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> Also do many of you use web-authoring tools that work better than
> vi :) and produce relatively clean (minimal) HTML? Just curious.
>

I use Xemacs with hm--html-menus (Communicator when I'm lazy and don't
care about getting clean results).

That's on my home machine... I don't think the school boxes have Xemacs
installed.