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....@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" <zi...@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....@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 > >> * > >> > >> >
