htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication

Name

       htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication

Options

-c     Create the passwdfile. If passwdfile already exists, it is deleted first.

       passwdfile
              Name of the file to contain the username, realm and password. If -c is given, this file is created
              if it does not already exist, or deleted and recreated if it does exist.

       realm  The      realm      name      to      which      the      user       name       belongs.       See
              http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1 for more details.

       username
              The user name to create or update in passwdfile. If username does not exist is this file, an entry
              is added. If it does exist, the password is changed.

Security Considerations

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

Apache HTTP Server                                 2018-07-06                                        HTDIGEST(1)

Summary

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