Adding a user on htpasswd

Question

I am using  htpasswd to password protect certain directory on my server  However  I noticed that everytime I do this sudo htpasswd -c  etc apache2  htpasswd newuser my current contents of  htpasswd will be overwritten  Every directory of my site has their own user on  htpasswd   How can I not overwrite instead add a new user on my  htpasswd

User · Answer

FWIW  htpasswd -n username will output the result directly to stdout  and avoid touching files altogether

User · Answer

Exact same thing  just omit the -c option  Apache s docs on it here   htpasswd  etc apache2  htpasswd newuser  Also  htpasswd typically isn t run as root  It s typically owned by either the web server  or the owner of the files being served  If you re using root to edit it instead of logging in as one of those users  that s acceptable  I suppose   but you ll want to be careful to make sure you don t accidentally create a file as root  and thus have root own it and no one else be able to edit it

[apache] Adding a user on .htpasswd

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