htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication

is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames, realm and password for digest authentication of HTTP users. Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by htdigest

This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of the directives necessary to configure digest authentication in

see the Apache manual, which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at httpdhttp://httpd.apache.org/.

htdigest [ -c ] passwdfile realm username

is given, this file is created if it does not already exist, or deleted and recreated if it does exist.realm

This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do not make it setuid.

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