Commit 48f4ba32 authored by Nick Kew's avatar Nick Kew
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PR#40950: backport security note to htpasswd/htdigest docs. 


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docs/manual/programs/htdigest.xml

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    </dl>

</section>



<section id="security"><title>Security Considerations</title>

    <p>This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do <em>not</em> make it

    setuid.</p>

</section>



</manualpage>

docs/manual/programs/htpasswd.xml

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    <em>not</em> be within the Web server's URI space -- that is, they should

    not be fetchable with a browser.</p>



    <p>This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do <em>not</em> make it

    setuid.</p>



    <p>The use of the <code>-b</code> option is discouraged, since when it is

    used the unencrypted password appears on the command line.</p>



    <p>When using the <code>crypt()</code> algorithm, note that only the first

    8 characters of the password are used  to form the password. If the supplied

    password is longer, the extra characters will be silently discarded.</p>



    <p>The SHA encryption format does not use salting: for a given password,

    there is only one encrypted representation. The <code>crypt()</code> and

    MD5 formats permute the representation by prepending a random salt string,

    to make dictionary attacks against the passwords more difficult.</p>

</section>



<section id="restrictions"><title>Restrictions</title>