new htpasswd

[Paul Richards <pa...@netcraft.co.uk>]

If anyone's thinking of writing a new htpasswd, then don't :-)

I've already written one but I'll spend another day cleaning it
up before passing it around. I could do with a few volunteers to
port it to non-4.4BSD systems though since I know of a few library
calls in 4.4 that I've used which are missing elsewhere.

They're really simple and can be replaced by fprintf's mostly.

Features:
1) file locking,
2) Requesting existing passwd before changing old.
3) Check for default password files in the following order
	i) Specified explicitly on the command line
	ii) A local passwd file i.e. in current directory
	iii) A default global passwd file -- I'd like some standard
		 Apache place for this, like the server-root/htpasswd ?
4) Changes the users passwd and checks authrity to change someone elses
   passwd.

Umm, on point 4). How exactly should this be done? I can just require too
access like a normal passwd changer but that's a bit excessive since you'd
want non-root www admins to be able to mess with the passwords.

Some of the above features I'm still working on obviously :-)


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