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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:23:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: Migrate htpasswd users to _users?
From: Keith Gable <ziggy@ignition-project.com>
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Well what I'm trying to say is crypt() won't work. You'll have to use the
APR-specific crypt() or a clone implementation. I remember seeing one in
Python on the nginx wiki.
On Jun 7, 2012 10:48 PM, "Jim Klo" <jim.klo@sri.com> wrote:

> As we're using whatever the default is on Ubuntu (which is crypt() per
> manpage http://linux.die.net/man/1/htpasswd)
>
> Is there an existing authentication handler plugin that uses crypt? While
> I'm not even close to even call myself an Erlang noob - from here it
> doesn't seem like it would too difficult to alter
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/1.2.x/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_auth.erlbut have no idea  where to start on modifying as a plugin.
>
> Worst case I just make all my users reset their passwords.
>
> - Jim
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 7:12 PM, "Keith Gable" <ziggy@ignition-project.com>
> wrote:
>
> > htpasswd supports several different hash schemes. $apr1$ is the default
> and
> > isn't very portable (though is supported by nginx) because it's not
> exactly
> > MD5 as generated by crypt().
> > On Jun 7, 2012 4:15 PM, "Jim Klo" <jim.klo@sri.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Wondering if there is a way to easily migrate a flat file of htpasswd
> >> users into couchdb _users?
> >>
> >> htpasswd typically uses crypt() which I think i based off a MD5, and
> >> couchdb uses SHA1.
> >>
> >> So essentially is there a stable authentication handler out there that
> >> replicates htpasswd?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> - Jim
> >>
> >> *
> >> Jim Klo
> >> Senior Software Engineer
> >> Center for Software Engineering
> >> SRI International
> >> *
> >>
> >>
>

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