Steve BARRETT writes:
>
> Has anyone running Apache on the HP3000 been successful in
> defining an encrypted password in the HFS file specified by the
> AuthUserFile directive in .htaccess?

Yes.  :-)

> The authentication works
> when the password part of the userid record is left blank.
> However, I would like to provide password protection as well.
>
> The Apache documentation indicates that a password needs to be
> defined with the "crypt()" shell command.  Is this command or
> some form of it available on the HP3000 under POSIX? If so, how
> would it be used in this context?

The htpasswd utility in the Apache support/ subdirectory can build
AuthUserFiles with encrypted passwords.

A demo of this is in /APACHE/PUB/public_html/secure/.
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