dbmmanage
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 1998
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NAME
dbmmanage - Create and update user authentication files in DBM format
SYNOPSIS
dbmmanage
filename
[
command
] [
username
[
encpasswd
] ]
DESCRIPTION
dbmmanage
is used to create and update the DBM format files used to store
usernames and password for basic authentication of HTTP users.
Resources available from the
httpd
Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed
in the files created by
dbmmanage.
This program can only be used
when the usernames are stored in a DBM file. To use a
flat-file database see
htpasswd.
This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of
the directives necessary to configure user authentication in
httpd
see
the Apache manual, which is part of the Apache distribution or can be
found at http://www.apache.org/.
OPTIONS
- filename
-
The filename of the DBM format file. Usually without the extension .pag or .dir.
- command
-
This selects the operation to perform:
- add
-
Adds an entry for username to filename using the encrypted
password encpassword.
- adduser
-
Asks for a password and then adds an entry for username to
filename .
- check
-
Asks for a password and then checks if
username is in filename and if it's password matches
the specified one.
- delete
-
Deletes the username entry from filename.
- import
-
Reads username:password entries (one per line) from STDIN and adds them to
filename. The passwords already has to be crypted.
- update
-
Same as the "adduser" command, except that it makes sure username
already exists in filename.
- view
-
Just displays the complete contents of the DBM file.
- username
-
The user for which the update operation is performed.
SEE ALSO
httpd(8)
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