problems with htpasswd

AtomicBanana · 14 Jan 2006 at 01:53

aghhh.. this is driving me mad!

I've been using this:

http://www.subversionary.org/howto/setting-up-a-server-on-fedora-core-4

and this command, just will not work, and I have no idea why:

htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords username password

if I type that it just spits back a useage guide, which I'm sure I'm following?

m_cozzy · 14 Jan 2006 at 15:11

do you have a file called passwords in /etc/httpd/passwd/?

I usually just run htpasswd FILE USERNAME in the correct directory, then it will ask for the password, type it in twice & your done.

AtomicBanana · 14 Jan 2006 at 16:26

do you have a file called passwords in /etc/httpd/passwd/?

No, but the -c flag is meant to do that.. and when I look at the man page that seems to be right.. it's just doesn't work

I'll try it that way . . .

EDIT: yep, that works thanks... I still don't understand why the other method doesn't though

electrofelix · 16 Jan 2006 at 13:55

AtomicBanana said:
and this command, just will not work, and I have no idea why:

htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords username password

if I type that it just spits back a useage guide, which I'm sure I'm following?

you should be using

Code:

htpasswd -b -c /etc/httpd/passwd/passwords username password

or don't pass the password on the command line.