On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: > Someone told Aaron to use htpasswd to add himself to the bug database > password list on daedalus. This was a *bad* idea, since the bug database > password list was in DB format.
Uh oh... > So now the bug database password list is corrupted, and nobody can login. > I've played around with it a little, and I can't figure out how to repair > it. Anyone have an idea? > > And should we add some basic format checking to htpasswd to prevent it > from corrupting any old file it comes across? Even worse, since it simply returned w/o an error I wrongly assumed that it had succeeded. Perhaps we can do some sanity checking on the input file in htpasswd: If there are any non-comment lines with more than one : then we bail out. -aaron
