htpasswd Replacement: Perl Script To Create Password Using crypt()

Webserver such as Nginx / Lighttpd accepets passwords using encoded method i.e. function crypt(3) is needs. You can create the password file with the htpasswd program from Apache. Sometime Apache is not installed use the following perl script to create password.

How do I use crypt.pl?

Download script

Set permissions:
chmod +x crypt.pl
./crypt.pl mySecrete

Sample Output:

$1$mySecret$TQgDKW6xpDmEUyxm5ZDxv/

Now you can create htpasswd file for lighttpd or nginx:

user:$1$mySecret$TQgDKW6xpDmEUyxm5ZDxv/

Perl script to replace htpasswd

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
 
my $passWord=$ARGV[0];
print crypt($passWord,$passWord)."\n";

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