Programmatically building htpasswd

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.httpasswd files are just text files with a specific format depending on the hash function specified. If you are using MD5 they look like this:

foo:$apr1$y1cXxW5l$3vapv2yyCXaYz8zGoXj241

That’s the login, a colon, ,$apr1$, the salt and 1000 times md5 encoded as base64. If you select SHA1 they look like this:

foo:{SHA}BW6v589SIg3i3zaEW47RcMZ+I+M=

That’s the login, a colon, the string {SHA} and the SHA1 hash encoded with base64.

If your language has an implementation of either MD5 or SHA1 and base64 you can just create the file like this:

<?php

$login = 'foo';
$pass="pass";
$hash = base64_encode(sha1($pass, true));

$contents = $login . ':{SHA}' . $hash;

file_put_contents('.htpasswd', $contents);

?>

Here’s more information on the format:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/password_encryptions.html

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