hi all,
Well.. i dont think.. this is the smartest way of doing it.. but i have written a program that takes user name and password from the console, and runs htpasswd, makes a directory in the docs folder with the user name and creates and htaccess file in that folder. I am basically executing unix commands.
My code is not generating any errors. It makes the required entry in "ulist" in the users directory. It creates the folder and creates the htacces file too.
However, when i enter the same as username/password at the network entry, they dont work.
The commands that i am running are : 
$htpasswd = "htpasswd -b /home/pathto ulist/ulist $user $password";
$makedir = "mkdir /home/pathtodir/$user";

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The contents of the the .htaccess file that i am creating are: 
$mycontents = "AuthType Basic\nAuthName \"Site Access\"\nAuthUserFile 
+/home/pathtoulist/ulist\nrequire user $user\n";

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Is there a problem, with my logic, cant i run htpasswd or create .htacces file this way?
Garry

In reply to run htpasswd as unix command in the program by gmishra

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