Re: [squid-users] Converting clear-text file into supported-by-squid encrypted file

Aqil <aq1l@yahoo.fr> writes:

> The MD5 encryption is well supported by ncsa
> authentication scheme, isn't it ?

I don't think so.

> So, I have 2 questions :
> 1. How to make the famous file ?
> ..the file as you know which has to be in the format
> that ncsa authentication scheme supports.
>
> 2. How to convert my clear text password file into the
> file that is required by ncsa authentication scheme?
> I really need to perform this conversion because I
> already have my database which consists of a large
> number of lines. I can't imagine if I have to perform
> the conversion line by line manually in the command
> line ..

if you have your userids and passwords in a file something like

while read $user $password
do
htpasswd -b passwordfile $user $password
done < cleartextfile

should work

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