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How-To: Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend

Posted by chantra on 17th December 2008

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series How-To: Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend

this tutorial will explain how to use a MySQL backend in order to authentication users against your Apache website.

To achieve this we will use Apache2 and its auth_mysql module.

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How-To: Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend — page 2

Posted by chantra on 17th December 2008

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series How-To: Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend

3. Creating users

Here we will be using sha1 password. To create a password, you can use the following command:

# echo -n ‘password’ | sha1sum
5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 -

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