INN commit: trunk/doc/pod (checklist.pod ckpasswd.pod)
INN Commit
rra at isc.org
Wed Sep 2 12:44:39 UTC 2015
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 @ 05:44:39
Author: iulius
Revision: 9937
Improve documentation about the use of htpasswd
Modified:
trunk/doc/pod/checklist.pod
trunk/doc/pod/ckpasswd.pod
---------------+
checklist.pod | 17 ++++++++++-------
ckpasswd.pod | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Modified: checklist.pod
===================================================================
--- checklist.pod 2015-09-02 12:35:17 UTC (rev 9936)
+++ checklist.pod 2015-09-02 12:44:39 UTC (rev 9937)
@@ -285,17 +285,20 @@
There is a Perl script in the ckpasswd(8) man page if you want to
do authentications by password and have the appropriate libraries.
-Copy it to I<pathbin>, name the file something like F<makepasswd.pl> and
-change the internal paths to whatever you're using and wherever you're
-putting the newsusers database. The standard Apache B<htpasswd> tool
-also works just fine to create INN password files, as well as pure Perl.
-For instance, a line for the newsusers database corresponding to the
-user C<user> with the password C<pass> would be C<user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE>
-as obtained by the following commands::
+Copy it to I<pathbin>, name the file something like F<makepasswd.pl>
+and change the internal paths to whatever you're using and wherever
+you're putting the newsusers database. The standard Apache B<htpasswd>
+tool also works just fine to create INN password files. For instance,
+a line for the newsusers database corresponding to the user C<user>
+with the password C<pass> would be C<user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE> as obtained
+by the following command:
% htpasswd -nbd user pass
user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE
+In case B<htpasswd> is not installed or if you do not want to depend
+on it, another command involving Perl does a similar job:
+
% perl -e 'print "user:".crypt("pass", "LI")."\n";'
user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE
Modified: ckpasswd.pod
===================================================================
--- ckpasswd.pod 2015-09-02 12:35:17 UTC (rev 9936)
+++ ckpasswd.pod 2015-09-02 12:44:39 UTC (rev 9937)
@@ -93,11 +93,14 @@
will use crypt(3).
A line in I<filename> for the user C<user> with the password C<pass>
-would be C<user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE> as obtained by the following commands:
+would be C<user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE> as obtained by the following command:
% htpasswd -nbd user pass
user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE
+In case B<htpasswd> is not installed or if you do not want to depend
+on it, another command involving Perl does a similar job:
+
% perl -e 'print "user:".crypt("pass", "LI")."\n";'
user:LIfOpbjNaEQYE
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