Re: .htpasswd?

You could also run something like: system("htpasswd -b passwordilf $user $password"),,,basically get the shell to run a the htpasswd program supplied by apache. you might have to play around with the permissions to do this, so the webserver can execute the htpasswd binary. /cody caughlan Victor Foitzik wrote: > James Smith wrote: > > >Is there a way that when a user signs up for a > >user/pass on a site, to automatically update the > >.htpasswd on the site? Right now I'm running a Win2k > >Pro, with Apache installed and MySQL/PHP. > > > >Thanks, > > > >James > > The quite simpliest method is to put appropriate directives in a .htaccess > file in appropriate (e.g. to be protected) directories like this: > > AuthName "Restricted Area" > AuthUserFile /www/users/users > AuthGroupFile /www/users/groups > AuthType Basic > Require registeredusers > > Then all you have to do is to regenerate the user and the group file > according to your needs. > > Another way to do this directly with MySQL is to use the apache auth_mysql > module which allows you to store authentication data in a MySQL DB. See > http://mysql.com/downloads/contrib.html > and > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-G.html > for more info. > > HTH > Victor > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net