1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 4<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 5 <head> 6 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> 7 8 <title>Manual Page: htdigest - Apache HTTP Server</title> 9 </head> 10 <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> 11 12 <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" 13 vlink="#000080" alink="#ff0000"> 14 <div align="CENTER"> 15 <img src="../images/sub.gif" alt="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]" /> 16 17 <h3>Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3</h3> 18 </div> 19 20 21 <h1 align="center">Manual Page: htdigest</h1> 22 <!-- This document was autogenerated from the man page --> 23<pre> 24<strong>NAME</strong> 25 htdigest - Create and update user authentication files 26 27<strong>SYNOPSIS</strong> 28 <strong>htdigest</strong> [ -<strong>c</strong> ] <em>passwdfile realm username</em> 29 30<strong>DESCRIPTION</strong> 31 <strong>htdigest</strong> is used to create and update the flat-files used to 32 store usernames, realm and password for digest authentica- 33 tion of HTTP users. Resources available from the <strong>httpd</strong> 34 Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed 35 in the files created by <strong>htdigest.</strong> 36 37 This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For 38 details of the directives necessary to configure digest 39 authentication in <strong>httpd</strong> see the Apache manual, which is part 40 of the Apache distribution or can be found at 41 http://www.apache.org/. 42 43<strong>OPTIONS</strong> 44 -c Create the <em>passwdfile</em>. If <em>passwdfile</em> already exists, it 45 is deleted first. 46 47 <em>passwdfile</em> 48 Name of the file to contain the username, realm and 49 password. If -c is specified, this file is created if 50 it does not already exist, or deleted and recreated if 51 it does exist. 52 53 <em>realm</em> 54 The realm name to which the user name belongs. 55 56 <em>username</em> 57 The user name to create or update in <strong>passwdfile</strong>. If 58 <em>username</em> does not exist is this file, an entry is 59 added. If it does exist, the password is changed. 60 61<strong>SEE ALSO</strong> 62 <strong>httpd(8)</strong> 63 64</pre> 65 <hr /> 66 67 <h3 align="CENTER">Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3</h3> 68 <a href="./"><img src="../images/index.gif" alt="Index" /></a> 69 <a href="../"><img src="../images/home.gif" alt="Home" /></a> 70 71 72 </body> 73</html> 74 75