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by **Eric Osbor** » Thu, 23 May 1996 04:00:00

I'm planning on upgrading a web server from CERN 3.0pre6 to Apache (1.05, or
whatever is non-beta at the time). Is there anybody who has gone through
this transition? Specifically, I'm concerned about the password authentication
mechanisms. Getting hundreds of users to change their passwords is
impossible; can Apache handle standard CERN password files? I know the
password file formats are the same (name:passwd), but do they both use
crypt()?

If there's a FAQ on this sort of thing, please feel free to point it out
to me; I didn't see anything on the Apache site. I'd be perfectly willing to
write the CERN -> Apache faq if one is needed and doesn't exist.

Thanks,

eric

by **Chris Brougha** » Sat, 25 May 1996 04:00:00

> I'm planning on upgrading a web server from CERN 3.0pre6 to Apache (1.05, or
> whatever is non-beta at the time). Is there anybody who has gone through
> this transition? Specifically, I'm concerned about the password authentication
> mechanisms. Getting hundreds of users to change their passwords is
> impossible; can Apache handle standard CERN password files? I know the
> password file formats are the same (name:passwd), but do they both use
> crypt()?

Yes it uses crypt(). For a transition to NCSA I edited a CERN password
and edited the full name field (I cam online late to our server
environment so I don't know if this is the way CERN creates .htpasswd's
or not -- haven't bothered to check!). It's matter of then creating
an .htaccess file and pointing to the edited CERN passwords file.

eg

CERN

brougham:dkfi498676: Chris Brougham

edit to:

NCSA

brougham:dfki498676

Chris

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