HTPASSWD(1) - General Commands Manual #

HTPASSWD(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

htpasswd - create and update user authentication files

SYNOPSIS #

htpasswd [file] login
htpasswd -I [file]

DESCRIPTION #

htpasswd is used to create and update user authentication files for HTTP daemons.

The options are as follows:

-I

Switch to batch mode. htpasswd reads exactly one line from standard input and splits it at the first “:”. The first part is the login, the second part is the password which htpasswd then hashes using bcrypt(3).

htpasswd prompts for a password and generates a hash using bcrypt(3). A line suitable for a password file is written to the standard output. If invoked with two arguments (or one argument if the -I flag is used) , user authentication file is updated.

HISTORY #

This reimplemented version of htpasswd has been available since OpenBSD 5.6.

AUTHORS #

Florian Obser <florian@openbsd.org> implemented htpasswd from scratch after Apache httpd was removed from OpenBSD base.

OpenBSD 7.5 - March 31, 2022