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| author | Rainer Jung <rjung@apache.org> | 2019-01-01 20:52:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Jung <rjung@apache.org> | 2019-01-01 20:52:56 +0000 |
| commit | 17a38a1eaee486e40369a14218167d8a9f26dd2e (patch) | |
| tree | 678e428b3a2b4d06f799d5c7c843235745014464 /docs/man | |
| parent | 7a1524fb1663cadfb0923afa2f2a6281a0b705f2 (diff) | |
| download | httpd-17a38a1eaee486e40369a14218167d8a9f26dd2e.tar.gz | |
Docs rebuild after copyright year update.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1850117 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/htpasswd.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/htpasswd.1 b/docs/man/htpasswd.1 index 8ada546f6f..99affb85df 100644 --- a/docs/man/htpasswd.1 +++ b/docs/man/htpasswd.1 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ .el .ne 3 .IP "\\$1" \\$2 .. -.TH "HTPASSWD" 1 "2018-09-27" "Apache HTTP Server" "htpasswd" +.TH "HTPASSWD" 1 "2019-01-01" "Apache HTTP Server" "htpasswd" .SH NAME htpasswd \- Manage user files for basic authentication @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Use MD5 encryption for passwords\&. This is the default (since version 2\&.2\&.1 Use bcrypt encryption for passwords\&. This is currently considered to be very secure\&. .TP \fB-C\fR -This flag is only allowed in combination with \fB-B\fR (bcrypt encryption)\&. It sets the computing time used for the bcrypt algorithm (higher is more secure but slower, default: 5, valid: 4 to 31)\&. +This flag is only allowed in combination with \fB-B\fR (bcrypt encryption)\&. It sets the computing time used for the bcrypt algorithm (higher is more secure but slower, default: 5, valid: 4 to 17)\&. .TP \fB-d\fR Use \fBcrypt()\fR encryption for passwords\&. This is not supported by the httpd server on Windows and Netware\&. This algorithm limits the password length to 8 characters\&. This algorithm is \fBinsecure\fR by today's standards\&. It used to be the default algorithm until version 2\&.2\&.17\&. @@ -168,3 +168,6 @@ The MD5 algorithm used by \fBhtpasswd\fR is specific to the Apache software; pas .PP Usernames are limited to \fB255\fR bytes and may not include the character \fB:\fR\&. +.PP +The cost of computing a bcrypt password hash value increases with the number of rounds specified by the \fB-C\fR option\&. The \fBapr-util\fR library enforces a maximum number of rounds of 17 in version \fB1\&.6\&.0\fR and later\&. + |