Hi Rich, take a look at line 84 to 90 from the source code [1] That might help you.
The dbmmanage is availabe in the bin folder on a regular build [2]. On Windows the name is dbmmanage.pl due the windows limitation of the need of a file extension. The basic usage[3] So you can download the perl script and play with it. Cheers Mario [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/modules/aaa/mod_authz_dbm.c [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/support/dbmmanage.in [3] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ mario@box:/opt/apache2/bin$ ./dbmmanage Usage: dbmmanage [enc] dbname command [username [pw [group[,group] [comment]]]] where enc is -d for crypt encryption (default except on Win32, Netware) -m for MD5 encryption (default on Win32, Netware) -s for SHA1 encryption -p for plaintext command is one of: add|adduser|check|delete|import|update|view pw of . for update command retains the old password pw of - (or blank) for update command prompts for the password groups or comment of . (or blank) for update command retains old values groups or comment of - for update command clears the existing value groups or comment of - for add and adduser commands is the empty value ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 4 July 2016 at 22:08, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > The mod_authz_dbm docs are making me crazy, and I could use some help. > In particular, the docs say: > > The group file is keyed on the username. The value for a user is a > comma-separated list of the groups to which the users belongs. There > must be no whitespace within the value, and it must never contain any > colons. > > However, there's no indication of how one much actually create such a > file. Can someone give me a pointer as to how I'd go about creating this > file? > > Related: the dbmmanage utility, while documented, is not actually > available (ie, as packages) on the Fedora/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu > families of Linux distros, so solutions involving dbmmanage are > frustrating, at best. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
