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- <title>htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication</title>
-
- <summary>
- <p><code>htdigest</code> is used to create and update the flat-files used
- to store usernames, realm and password for digest authentication of HTTP
- users. Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted
- to just the users listed in the files created by <code>htdigest</code>.</p>
-
- <p>This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of
- the directives necessary to configure digest authentication in
- <a href="httpd.html">httpd</a> see the Apache manual, which is part
- of the Apache distribution or can be found at
- <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">http://httpd.apache.org/</a>.</p>
- </summary>
- <seealso><a href="httpd.html">httpd</a></seealso>
- <seealso><module>mod_auth_digest</module></seealso>
-
- <section id="synopsis"><title>Synopsis</title>
- <p><code><strong>htdigest</strong> [ -<strong>c</strong> ]
- <var>passwdfile</var> <var>realm</var> <var>username</var></code></p>
- </section>
-
- <section id="options"><title>Options</title>
- <dl>
- <dt><code>-c</code></dt>
- <dd>Create the <var>passwdfile</var>. If <var>passwdfile</var> already
- exists, it is deleted first.</dd>
-
- <dt><code><var>passwdfile</var></code></dt>
- <dd>Name of the file to contain the username, realm and password. If
- <code>-c</code> is given, this file is created if it does not already
- exist, or deleted and recreated if it does exist.</dd>
-
- <dt><code><var>realm</var></code></dt>
- <dd>The realm name to which the user name belongs.</dd>
-
- <dt><code><var>username</var></code></dt>
- <dd>The user name to create or update in <var>passwdfile</var>. If
- <var>username</var> does not exist is this file, an entry is added. If it
- does exist, the password is changed.</dd>
- </dl>
- </section>
-
- </manualpage>
-