This page allows you to create a new user database on your server. After creating it, you can add users to it, and then use it to apply access control to part of your server.
If you have existing user databases in NCSA-style format, or if you want to
create a text file to add users in batch mode, you may want to check out
the DBM converter as a way to do that.
User databases are kept under the ServerRoot, in the subdirectory
userdb.
That is, on your server, they are kept in the
directory
.
Normally these databases are in DBM format, a high speed
database format that guarantees that no matter how large the database is,
it will only take one file system access to find a given name.
You do have the option of storing the password files in text format. In that case, each line of the file would read:
user1:password1 user2:password2with the passwords stored in encrypted form. This is known as an NCSA-style database.
Note that the administrative password is stored as a user named "admin" in the database.