[GLLUG] Re: Apache Authentication

[wattersm]

Thomas Alan Hearn writes: 

> Hello fellow GLLUGers,
> I have yet another question concerning apache.  This time my problem is as 
> follows.  I am transferring a website that used to be on a windows apache 
> server, and the login for the site was .htaccess and http auth type login. 
> My problem is that the .htpasswd file was stored with the passwords in 
> plain text on the windows machine.  If I remember correctly, i believe 
> linux requires that .htpasswd files be store encrypted?  My problem is 
> that there are over 300 users on the site and to manually change all those 
> passwords would be horrible.  Anyone have any suggestions, and if not, 
> know how to get about encrypting the file?  
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Cheers,
> Tom
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Python can do it. 

#!/usr/bin/python 

import os
import string 

f = open('htpasswd_win') 

password_list = f.readlines() 

f.close 

#This is in case htpasswd_linux does not exist
os.system("touch htpasswd_linux") 

for x in password_list:
      x.strip()
      user = string.split(x, ":")
      os.system("htpasswd -b htpasswd_linux %s %s" %(user[0], user[1]) ) 

print "List converted successfully.\n" 

Pretty much anything on unix can be scripted, so learning perl or python or 
any other scripting language will make things much easier on you.