1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 3<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- 4 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 5 This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT 6 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 7 --> 8<title>htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication - Apache HTTP Server</title> 9<link href="/style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> 10<link href="/style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> 11<link href="/style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style/css/prettify.css" /> 12<script src="/style/scripts/prettify.min.js" type="text/javascript"> 13</script> 14 15<link href="/images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> 16<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> 17<p class="menu"><a href="/mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="/mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ">FAQ</a> | <a href="/glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="/sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> 18<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</p> 19<img alt="" src="/images/feather.gif" /></div> 20<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="/images/left.gif" /></a></div> 21<div id="path"> 22<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.4</a> > <a href="./">Programs</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication</h1> 23<div class="toplang"> 24<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="/en/programs/htdigest.html" title="English"> en </a> | 25<a href="/fr/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Fran�ais"> fr </a> | 26<a href="/ko/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | 27<a href="/tr/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="T�rk�e"> tr </a></p> 28</div> 29 30 <p><code>htdigest</code> is used to create and update the flat-files used 31 to store usernames, realm and password for digest authentication of HTTP 32 users. Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted 33 to just the users listed in the files created by <code>htdigest</code>.</p> 34 35 <p>This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of 36 the directives necessary to configure digest authentication in 37 <code class="program"><a href="/programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> see the Apache manual, which is part 38 of the Apache distribution or can be found at 39 <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">http://httpd.apache.org/</a>.</p> 40</div> 41<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#synopsis">Synopsis</a></li> 42<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#options">Options</a></li> 43<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#security">Security Considerations</a></li> 44</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><code class="program"><a href="/programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code></li><li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code></li></ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> 45<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 46<div class="section"> 47<h2><a name="synopsis" id="synopsis">Synopsis</a></h2> 48 <p><code><strong>htdigest</strong> [ -<strong>c</strong> ] 49 <var>passwdfile</var> <var>realm</var> <var>username</var></code></p> 50</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 51<div class="section"> 52<h2><a name="options" id="options">Options</a></h2> 53 <dl> 54 <dt><code>-c</code></dt> 55 <dd>Create the <var>passwdfile</var>. If <var>passwdfile</var> already 56 exists, it is deleted first.</dd> 57 58 <dt><code><var>passwdfile</var></code></dt> 59 <dd>Name of the file to contain the username, realm and password. If 60 <code>-c</code> is given, this file is created if it does not already 61 exist, or deleted and recreated if it does exist.</dd> 62 63 <dt><code><var>realm</var></code></dt> 64 <dd>The realm name to which the user name belongs. See 65 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1"> 66 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1</a> for more details. 67 </dd> 68 69 <dt><code><var>username</var></code></dt> 70 <dd>The user name to create or update in <var>passwdfile</var>. If 71 <var>username</var> does not exist is this file, an entry is added. If it 72 does exist, the password is changed.</dd> 73 </dl> 74</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 75<div class="section"> 76<h2><a name="security" id="security">Security Considerations</a></h2> 77 <p>This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do <em>not</em> make it 78 setuid.</p> 79</div></div> 80<div class="bottomlang"> 81<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="/en/programs/htdigest.html" title="English"> en </a> | 82<a href="/fr/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Fran�ais"> fr </a> | 83<a href="/ko/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | 84<a href="/tr/programs/htdigest.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="T�rk�e"> tr </a></p> 85</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="/images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. Comments placed here should be pointed towards suggestions on improving the documentation or server, and may be removed again by our moderators if they are either implemented or considered invalid/off-topic. 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