the & has a special meaning within your shell. its NOT an htpasswd issue,
if the shell manual is too big (normaly is) try using quotes or escaping
the amp with a downstroke.
Robin-David Hammond KB3IEN
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On Mon, 26 Mar
Hi Brian,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# htpasswd -b
/etc/opt/CollabNet_Subversion/conf/svn_auth_file jtest
f&5H%c
htpasswd -b /tmp/passfile username "f&5H%c"
should do the trick :)
Cheers,
Stefan
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The official User-To-User support
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:14 PM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] htpasswd problem adding user
>
> Hi,
>
> When I try to add a new user with htpasswd on th
Hi,
When I try to add a new user with htpasswd on the command line, it takes every
thing after "f&"
as a new command then hangs waiting for some input after "Adding password for
user jtest" and when I enter
Ctrl c it completes the command adding user "jtest" with a password "f"
any help wou