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command:
htpasswd "directory" "username"
result:
enter password:

I want to feed the password prompt automatically.  I thought that the
following would work

htpasswd  "directory" "username" <"input file"

Where input file contained 2 lines with the password.  It does not work.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Shawn

Quote:>If you are referring to the htpasswd that is distributed
>with Apache (and I must assume that, even though you
>could take any old pile o' code and call it whatever you
>want), it reads its password from /dev/tty, not stdin.
>This is to prevent scripts like yours. You can hack the
>code (I think it's in util.c), but it's been so long
>since I had to do it that I'm reluctant to spend the
>time in archeology.  If you aren't one, find a
>reasonably competent unix/C guy and he'll get it done in
>an hour or so.

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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

sub salt { $saltchars[rand(64)] .  $saltchars[rand(64)] }
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    my ($name, $pass) = split;
    print $name, ":", crypt($pass, &salt), "\n";

Quote:}