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Here is a perl one-liner to produce an encrypted password. The example uses the plain-text password "hello". (without the quotes). You must also decide on any two-characters to use as "salt" for salting the crypt() function:

perl -e 'print crypt "hello", "ab"'

This displays the encrypted version of the supplied password with the salt at the beginning, in this case:

abl0JrMf6tlhw

This is useful to know if you have access to a shell and have Perl installed (which is almost always the case in Unix-Land (tm)).

allright, later...
Jeff S

From the article:
".htaccess Naming Conventions and File Creation

Firstly, do not let the period preceding the name intimidate you. The .htaccess name, in a technical sense, is simply a file extension. The difference here is no file name is cited."

.htaccess is *not* a file extension with no name, it is the name of the file! Unix file names that begin with a dot are interpreted by the filesystem as *hidden* files. But this is not the same thing as a file extension with no filename.

Technically yours,
Jeff S

can this be used by us using apache on a windows machine?