OK, so its not too hard to run htpasswd manually, but if you spend a lot of time in your job doing it, it's nice to have a tool to do it more efficiently. This is a menu driven script, which will make a backup of your file, and suggest a random password, which you can choose to use or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As always, don't trust everything you read on the internet, and test before you use in anger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/bash\n\n# Configuration\nHTACCESS_FILE_DEFAULT=\"\/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd-developers\n\n# Function to display a list of users\ndisplay_users() {\n echo \"--- Existing Users ---\"\n # Grep for lines that don't start with # and aren't empty\n # Then use cut to show only the username before the colon, and number the lines\n grep -vE '^(#|$)' \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" | cut -d':' -f1 | cat -n\n echo \"----------------------\"\n}\n\n# Function to perform a backup\nbackup_file() {\n if [ -f \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" ]; then\n cp \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" \"$HTACCESS_FILE.bak\"\n echo \"Backup created at $HTACCESS_FILE.bak\"\n else\n echo \"No .htpasswd file to back up.\"\n fi\n}\n\n# Function to generate a random password\ngenerate_password() {\n tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < \/dev\/urandom | head -c 12\n}\n\n# --- Main Script ---\n\n# Select the .htpasswd file. Suggest the default value, but allow user to type another name\nread -p \"Enter .htpasswd file (default: $HTACCESS_FILE_DEFAULT): \" HTACCESS_FILE\nHTACCESS_FILE=${HTACCESS_FILE:-$HTACCESS_FILE_DEFAULT}\n\n# Ensure the file exists, exit if not\nif [ ! -f \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" ]; then\n echo \"Password file doesn't exist\"\n exit 1\nfi\n\n# Main menu loop\nwhile true; do\n echo \"Do you want to:\"\n echo \"a) Add a user\"\n echo \"r) Remove a user\"\n echo \"u) Update a user's password\"\n echo \"l) List users\"\n echo \"q) Quit\"\n read -p \"Enter your choice: \" choice\n\n case \"$choice\" in\n a)\n read -p \"Enter username to add: \" username\n # Check if the username already exists\n if grep -q \"^$username:\" \"$HTACCESS_FILE\"; then\n echo \"Error: User '$username' already exists. Use the 'u' option to update their password.\"\n else\n suggested_password=$(generate_password)\n read -p \"Enter password for '$username' (or press Enter to use suggested: $suggested_password): \" password\n password=${password:-$suggested_password}\n \n backup_file\n htpasswd -b \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" \"$username\" \"$password\"\n echo \"User '$username' added.\"\n fi\n ;;\n r)\n display_users\n read -p \"Enter reference number of user to remove: \" ref\n # Use grep and sed to find the line number and get the username\n username_to_remove=$(grep -vE '^(#|$)' \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" | sed -n \"${ref}p\" | cut -d':' -f1)\n\n if [ -z \"$username_to_remove\" ]; then\n echo \"Invalid reference number.\"\n else\n backup_file\n # Create a temp file without the user and then replace the original\n grep -v \"^$username_to_remove:\" \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" > \"$HTACCESS_FILE.tmp\" && mv \"$HTACCESS_FILE.tmp\" \"$HTACCESS_FILE\"\n echo \"User '$username_to_remove' removed.\"\n fi\n ;;\n u)\n display_users\n read -p \"Enter reference number of user to update: \" ref\n username_to_update=$(grep -vE '^(#|$)' \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" | sed -n \"${ref}p\" | cut -d':' -f1)\n\n if [ -z \"$username_to_update\" ]; then\n echo \"Invalid reference number.\"\n else\n suggested_password=$(generate_password)\n read -p \"Enter new password for '$username_to_update' (or press Enter to use suggested: $suggested_password): \" password\n password=${password:-$suggested_password}\n\n backup_file\n htpasswd -b \"$HTACCESS_FILE\" \"$username_to_update\" \"$password\"\n echo \"Password for user '$username_to_update' updated.\"\n fi\n ;;\n l)\n display_users\n ;;\n q)\n echo \"Exiting.\"\n exit 0\n ;;\n *)\n echo \"Invalid option. 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