Subversion Administration

Add user

If you already have some users, the password file [filename] will already exist.

htpasswd2 /var/svn/conf/[filename] [username]

The -c flag will create a new file, so don't use it if you only want to add a user to an existing file otherwise you'll overwrite the entire file (hence delete all existing users).

htpasswd2 -c /var/svn/conf/[filename] [username]

Edit user

This is the same as creating a new one.

htpasswd2 /var/svn/conf/[filename] [username]

Delete user

htpasswd2 -D /var/svn/conf/[filename] [username]

Specifying password on the command line as an argument

In all examples, you can use the -b to allow you to specify the password as an argument rather than being prompted for it. e.g:

htpasswd2 -b /var/svn/conf/[filename] [username] [password]