[ale] How to get working htpasswd command onto old GoDaddy Server

[Neal Rhodes]

hmm.  Sometimes just asking a question provokes an answer.   Apparently
this little bit of PERL will create a similar file. 

cat myhtpasswd.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
chomp(my $filename=$ARGV[0]);
chomp(my $username=$ARGV[1]);
chomp(my $password=$ARGV[2]);
if (!$filename || !$username || !$password) {
  print "USAGE: ./crypt.pl filename username password\n\n";
} else {
  open FILE, ">>", $filename or die $!;
  print FILE $username . ":" . crypt($password, $username) . "\n";
  close FILE or die $!;
}

The actual encrypted string is completely different from what my Centos
box generates, but when I plopped it in place, Apache accepted the very
same password. 


On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 10:53 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:

> So, we have a hosting account on a Godaddy Linux server: 
> 
> Linux XXXXXXXX.secureserver.net 2.6.18-411.el5PAE #1 SMP Mon Jul 11
> 18:26:16 CDT 2016 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Which, amongst other things, hosts the Lloyd Shaw Foundations historic
> music downloads.   So people all over the world are paying a tiny
> amount for tunes from the archives via Paypal, and then I setup
> download for them. 
> 
> Which now has me building an .htpasswd file on my local Centos 6 64
> bit system, and shoving that over via scp. 
> 
> Because the Godaddy server lacks an htpasswd command.    And Godaddy
> support has in the past and continues to decline to provide a
> compatible one.  
> 
> BUT, they don't have any problem with me stuffing one there in my
> local ./bin folder and running it.    So, if I could find a compatible
> binary to the above, I could put the entire fulfillment process in one
> place and put a PHP front end on it and allow volunteers other than me
> to do it in places other than my office. 
> 
> So, the htpasswd from my 64 bit Centos 6 server didn't fly - I assume
> the binary is incompatible.   How would I go about finding a
> compatible one?   I did some random digging with rpmseek.com, and
> found one in  HTPASSWD-APACHE-2.2.22-7.I486.RPM, but after unpacking
> and shoveling it over there, it wants some libraries: 
> 
> 
>         ./htpasswd: error while loading shared libraries:
>         libaprutil-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
>         file or directory
>         
> 
> Obviously, getting shared libraries starts to get more involved.   I
> just want to create a one-line ..htpasswd file Apache is happy with
> for each music download directory. 
> 
> If this takes a lot of drama, I might just accelerate the migration of
> my hosting off this server onto a more current one, which Godaddy says
> they have to force to happen anyway by the end of 2017. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Neal 
> 
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