Re: [PHP-LANG] .htaccess and crypt

[email protected] (Derick Rethans) Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:13:20 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups php.lang
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

please forward user questions to the [email protected]
mailinglist, this list is for development _OF_ PHP, not development
_with_ PHP.

Derick


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Chris Morris wrote:

> I have seen several PHP scripts that act as an interface to .htaccess files.
> They are able to add, change, and delete users from a nice, web-based
> interface.  The only problem is that they don't work on Windows.
> 
> I read a post somewhere where someone said that this is because the scripts
> use "crypt" to write the encrypted password to the .htpasswd file and
> "crypt" is not the same on Windows and Linux/Unix.  Something about Windows
> and Linux not using the same encryption functions.
> 
> Anyway, has anyone gotten this to work on Windows?  I am doing research as
> to which technology would be best to implement an automated user creation
> and removal system and PHP and Apache seems to be the best solution, IF I
> can get this to work.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 

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