Topic: 3rd party applications for username administration

[cpasquini]

Hey all,

This my first time posting, so please go easy on me if this has been discussed before.

My question is in regards to apache's basic authorization using AuthDBMUserFile. Does anyone know of 3rd party apps (commercial or freeware) that would administer existing data files created using dbmmanage? I am interested in something that would allow either the existing dbm files to be used directly or to import existing files as is (keeping all of the username's and passwords in tact). Forcing passwords to expire over time and allowing users to update their own password would be even more helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Chris

[James Blond]

There is a perl script dbmmanage.pl included in apache to manage those files. For details see the docs http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/dbmmanage.html

[cpasquini]

Thanks for the info, however I am looking for something that is more robust than the perl script, like something that includes a GUI for a non-technical admin to handle.

Our company has an ever-growing list of internal users that are sitting in our dbm files, but we would like more control, such as the ability to set expiration dates for passwords and to possibly allow users to change their own passwords. Building something like this will take time and resources that are not currently available, so a commercial solution is probably best for us.

The closest thing I have found is this - www.HtpasswdGenerator.com

Unfortunately that only works with htpasswd files and I don't think there is anyway to export the dbm files into .htpasswd without corrupting the existing passwords for those users.

Chris