From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2008-05-22T14:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: htpasswd

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:51:39AM +0900, Anka Anka wrote:
> How to generate apache password  with ruby? I have to generate from ruby
> code the same password like htpasswd2 -m make. In other words: from ruby
> on rails application I have to generate a password, which will be used
> not only for login, but also to generate apache config files (e.g.
> password files for subversion) - so the password must be exactly the
> same.
> Can someone help me?
> Sorry for my english...

Try out the htauth gem and see if it works for you:

  gem install htauth

http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/htauth/

  > HTAuth is a pure ruby replacement for the Apache support programs htdigest
  > and htpasswd. Command line and API access are provided for access and
  > control of htdigest and htpasswd files.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org