htpasswd 2.3

# htpasswd [](http://travis-ci.org/thesharp/htpasswd)

## Description htpasswd is a library for working with htpasswd user (only basic authorization) and group files. It supports CRYPT and MD5 encryption methods. To actually use MD5 encryption method you MUST have an openssl binary installed into system $PATH.

## Dependencies - Python 2.7 or 3.3 or 3.4 - [orderedmultidict](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/orderedmultidict/0.7) >= 0.7 - [future](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/future) - [nose](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/) >= 1.1.2 (for tests)

## Sample usage

import htpasswd

with htpasswd.Basic(“/path/to/user.db”) as userdb:

try:

userdb.add(“bob”, “password”)

except htpasswd.basic.UserExists, e:

print e

try:

userdb.change_password(“alice”, “newpassword”)

except htpasswd.basic.UserNotExists, e:

print e

with htpasswd.Group(“/path/to/group.db”) as groupdb:

try:

groupdb.add_user(“bob”, “admins”)

except htpasswd.group.UserAlreadyInAGroup, e:

print e

try:

groupdb.delete_user(“alice”, “managers”)

except htpasswd.group.UserNotInAGroup, e:

print e

To use MD5 encryotion, add mode="md5" to the constructor:

with htpasswd.Basic(“/path/to/user.db”, mode=”md5”) as userdb

## Provided methods

### Basic - __contains__(user) - users - add(user, password) - pop(user) - change_password(user, password) - _encrypt_password(password)

### Group - __contains__(group) - groups - is_user_in(user, group) - add_user(user, group) - delete_user(user, group)

## Exceptions

### UserExists Raised by Basic.add if user already exists.

### UserNotExists Raised by Basic.delete and Basic.change_password if there is no such user.

### GroupNotExists Raised by Group.delete_user if there is no such group.

### UserAlreadyInAGroup Raised by Group.add_user if user is already in a group.

### UserNotInAGroup Raised by Group.delete_user if user isn’t in a group.

### UnknownEncryptionMode Raised by _encrypt_password if mode is not ‘crypt’ or ‘md5’.