Bug#448754: /usr/bin/htpasswd: please give batchable option

Package: apache2-utils
Version: 2.2.6-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/htpasswd

Hi,

the man page for htpasswd discourages use of -b, because the password is visible on the command line. That's ok.

However, how is one supposed to set a htpasswd password from a shell script (like a package postinst) if -b is discouraged? Piping a password to htpasswd does not seem to work either.

Please advise and document.

Greetings
Marc

• System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1-scyw00225 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apache2-utils depends on:

ii  libapr1                 1.2.11-1         The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii  libaprutil1             1.2.7+dfsg-2+b1  The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-6          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.4                4.4.20-11        Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpcre3                7.3-2            Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpq5                  8.2.5-2          PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.4.2-2          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-1         SSL shared libraries
ii  libuuid1                1.40.2-1         universally unique id library

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