Hi all,

After attempting to work on a CGI program that would allow me to set .htaccess and .htpasswd files remotely through a secure form, I hit a snag.

Writing the .htaccess files were no problem, however, I was a bit stuck when it came to .htpasswd.

.htpasswd files are in username:password format, with the first two letters of the password being the salt that you would use in Perl's crypt function. When htpasswd generates a file, however, it seems that the salt is random.

I tried using HTTPD::UserAgent (found out about it here), but it's not installed on this server, and I don't have the ability to install it (I don't even have telnet/SSH access :( just FTP.)

If the .htpasswd files do use a random salt, would it be worthwhile to have perl generate the .htpasswd file or should (if it's possible) I pass the information to htpasswd through a pipe (last resort)?

Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to Perl and Apache Configuration Files by newrisedesigns

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