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XSAUTH(5)                DragonFly File Formats Manual               XSAUTH(5)

NAME
     .xsauth - XS-httpd authentication data

DESCRIPTION
     An .xsauth file informs the xs-httpd webserver which authenticated users
     should be granted read access to a directory-hierarchy. Only users
     mentioned in this file can view the available data.

     This file is created with the xspasswd(1) utility. This can also be used
     to add more username and password combinations later. However this
     utility can not be used to remove users or to add special options: for
     this you will need to edit the file manually and remove the line that
     mentions the obsolete user entry.

     The .xsauth file can be used in data directories (HtmlDir) as well as in
     cgi-bin script directories (PhExecDir).  So there is no need to implement
     authentication support in CGI scripts.

     If you want to disallow access through the web-interface completely, or
     you want to restrict access based on IP addresses, use a .noxs file
     instead.

   Password Entries
     Normal password entries consist of a `L' (locked) or `U' (unlocked),
     indicating if the password entry may be modified through the web-
     interface, using the xschpass(1) CGI binary (which is no longer installed
     by default). This letter is immediately followed by the username, a colon
     and the encrypted version of the password. This is optionally followed by
     an additional colon and a hash value to be used for digest access
     authentication.

   LDAP Authentication
     Previous versions allowed LDAP configuration options in .xsauth files as
     well. This is no longer supported. Use xsconf(5) in stead to configure
     LDAP authentication.

SEE ALSO
     httpd(1), xspasswd(1), xsconf(5)

     The project homepage: http://www.xs-httpd.org/

xs-httpd/3.5                     June 12, 2002                    xs-httpd/3.5