htdigest file format

Question

I\'m trying to write some code to work with an htdigest password file. The documentation I can find seems to claim that the format of that file is:

user:real         


        

Answer 1

echo by default adds a trailing new line:

echo -n a:b:c | md5

Should work as you expect.

Answer 2

Here is how you set the password for a given user.

sudo htdigest /etc/apache2/.htdigest yourrealm.com yourusername

Answer 3

Hm, I seem to have answered my own question. My test case was flawed, 'echo' is adding extra characters (not sure which). For instance

echo a:b:c | wc

gives 6 characters instead of 5. Calculating the hash at http://md5-hash-online.waraxe.us/ gives the correct value. Sorry everyone!