VPASSWD(5)

NAME
vpasswd - format of the virtual host password file

DESCRIPTION
The vpasswd files are files consisting of newline separated records, one per user, containing two colon (‘’): separated fields. These fields are as follows:

name
    User's login name.

password
    User's encrypted password.

Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#) are comments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist only of spaces, tabs or newlines are also ignored.

The name field is the login used to access the computer account.

The login name must never begin with a hyphen (‘-’).

The password field is the encrypted form of the password. Disabled accounts have a password field containing an asterisk ‘*’ which disallows normal logins.

FILES
@PATH_VHOST@/host/passwd
    the virtual host's password file.

SEE ALSO
vpasswd(1)