Removing users from .htpasswd file

[Anon]

Hello,

I am trying to make a script that will allow me to scan a .htpasswd for "dead" users. I have a log file named remove.log with a bunch of user's i need to clean from my .htpasswd file , anyone have any ideas on how i can accomplish this?

• Eric

[Anon]

Don't use PHP for this unless you have the CGI version installed.

Use the file() function to break the .htpasswd files into lines, then for each .htpasswd file, loop thru each line and do a string comparison, perhaps strstr().

eg:

<?
if ($lines=file($htpasswdfile))
while (list($k, $line)=each($lines))
if in_array($badlist, $line))
unset($lines[$k]);

reset($lines);
while (list($k, $v)=each($lines))
$write.=$k."\n";

$fp=fopen($htpasswdfile, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $write);
fclose($fp);

?>

Go for it! This is an exercise in PHP's strengths as a string processing engine.