delete user from .htpassword file

**DEVELISH** · 03-10-2006, 09:20 AM

Hi,

i need to delete a user from the .htpassword file - no, not by hand but by a programm (shell script or php or something)

my htpasswd command does not support the "-D" for deleting a user.

anybody have an idea?

THANKS ;D

DEVELISH

**Chilihost** · 03-10-2006, 09:57 AM

.htpasswd is just a text file, you can edit it in notepad or directly on the server with a text editor like vi. The other way you can edit it is through your billing company's script.

cheers,
Luke

**DEVELISH** · 03-10-2006, 04:29 PM

Hehe, that's too easy

I did programm something myself to add users

<?php
[...]
exec ('htpasswd and more code to add user');
[...]
?>

now I need to delete one single user from the .htpasswd file

the command to do this is "htpasswd -D .htpasswd username" but my htpasswd command does not support the -D option

I'd like to do something like this

Code:

#!/bin/bash

users=`cat /path/to/.htpasswd`

$searchFor =`cat /path/to/.htpasswd | grep $1`

for Name in $users
do
#if $name is not the username to be deleted write to a tmp file
if [$Name != $searchFor]
write $name to /path/to/htpasswd.tmp
fi
done
mv /path/to/htpasswd.tmp /path/to/.htpasswd
done

so I can call the script with
$ ./script.sh username

Develish ;D

**haganxy** · 03-10-2006, 08:06 PM

i wrote a real quick simple perl script that will do what you're looking for. use this at your own risk, as i didn't have the time to debug/test it.

you can run it via the command line: perl scriptname.pl username

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl


$password_file = '/path/to/.htpasswd';



$username_to_delete = $ARGV[0];



open(F,"$password_file") || die "$!";

while(<F>) {

chomp;
($u,$p) = split /\:/,$_;


push (@logins,$_) unless ($u eq $username_to_delete);


}


close(F);



open(F,">$password_file") || die "$!";


foreach (@logins) {

print F "$_\n";

}


close(F);