Just do a system call or use back tics to call htpasswd.exe and save yourself the grief... 

`$HTPASSWD_BIN -b $HTPASSWD_FILE $user "$pwd"`;

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Where $HTPASSWD_BIN is the full path to htpasswd.exe and $HTPASSWD_FILE is the full path to the .htpasswd file.

If you want to see why what you are trying to do will not work properly read this (from the docs for Win32): 

     htpasswd encrypts passwords using either a  version  of  MD5
     modified for Apache, or the system's crypt() routine.  Files
     managed by htpasswd may contain  both  types  of  passwords;
     some  user  records  may  have MD5-encrypted passwords while
     others in the same file may have  passwords  encrypted  with
     crypt().

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And then read htpasswd.c which you will find in your distro if you do a search. The MD5 hashing is modified as you can see. You may be able to use crypt() to do what you want if you don't want to go the system call route for some reason.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: MD5 and my Win32 Apache by tachyon
in thread MD5 and my Win32 Apache by cdguitar01

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