.htpasswd password encryption script

[RFH Reseller: Mark Voss]

A while back I wrote an online .htpasswd & .htaccess editor for a client who doesn't have access to Helm.

It worked OK with URL Protector, but under IIS Pasword, the passwords are encrypted.

Does anyone know of a script that will produce the user:encrypted password pairs for me from an entered username and password?

There are stacks of online password generators around but I want one that I can run on my site.

Cheers,

Mark

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

I do actually mean to upgrade to URLProtector, we have licences - we just have a problem in that we can't decrypt the current passwords to make them URLPortector compatible.

Anyway, the encryption routine that you are looking for is CRYPT - a standard implemetion of CRYPT should get you the result you need.

I think you will find a couple of ASP/PHP scripts which implement CRYPT.

[RFH Reseller: Mark Voss]

OK thanks Warren - I'll have a Google

Re: upgrading to URL Protector - it's not just that the passwords are encrypted, aren't the three files named differently too?

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Yes, but I can easilly write a script to convert filenames and file content etc... just I cant decrypt the passwords because CRYPT is one-way like MD5

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

PHP Script (easy):

<?
$password = crypt("password");
?>

ASP Script:
Didnt find anything, but you could use MSXML2 to read the value of a PHP script output - if you need this let me know and Ill put the code together for you.

[RFH Reseller: Mark Voss]

PHP Script (easy)

Yep - didn't relise quite how easy!
I used PHP and a form with user & pass fields

<?php
if (isset($_POST[user]) && isset($_POST[pass]))
{
$user = $_POST[user];
$pass = $_POST[pass];
$htpasswd_text = $user.":".crypt($pass,CRYPT_STD_DES);
echo $htpasswd_text;
}
?>

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

No problem