[pmwiki-users] question about password files

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Nov 7 08:25:46 CST 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:51:57AM +0100, Patrick Ogay wrote:
> I like to have the same passworts like in Apache.
> So I like to use authuser with a passwordfile, which doesn't work yet.
> When I checked may apache pw file 
> created with  htpassword, there is a different encryption 
> (example:NPtapYBNVvC02)
> than crpyt in pmwiki. (same:
> 
> $1$5SAPuUxk$Fd9Y8ojRDbFnpYZx.f1zq. )
> 
> What kind of passwordfiles does authuser accept? 

Authuser understands all sorts of encryptions, including the
encryptions used by apache.  In the example you give above, it looks
as though your htpasswd program is using DES encryption, which
PmWiki's authuser script can handle directly.

Pm




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