UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I need to take our unix password file and make the usernames and passwords in a .htpasswd file to protect some webpages. I really dont want to type them in. Any suggestions how I do this?

/---Frank----/

for .htpasswd you usually just have to have a

Code:

username:passwordhash

So.. if your web server can handle your hash of choice, you simply need to get the username and hashes... should be able to get that from /etc/shadow (on most systems). What *ix are you using?

So in general:

cut -f1,2 -d: /etc/shadow

would suffice. But only if your passwords are in DES crypt format or MD5 (only on newer web servers). Other hashes may be possible, but in general you can only count on DES or MD5.

We are running NIS on a solaris 8 box for our user accounts.

also we are running this on apache 1.3.9 also running on solaris. Here is what our shadow structure looks like.

Ok... that actually should work as is... if you make it your .htpasswd file.

ypcat passwd >.htpasswd

I'm pretty sure the other fields won't matter as long as the first two are there.