• A flat file used to store usernames and password for basic authentication on an Apache HTTP Server. The name of the file is given in the .htaccess configuration, and can be anything although “.htpasswd” is the canonical name. .htpasswd is often maintained with the shell command “htpasswd” which can add, delete, and update users, and will properly encode the password for use. The file consists of rows, each row corresponding to a username, followed by a colon, followed by a string containing the hashed password optionally prepended by an algorithm specifier ($2y$, $apr1$, or {SHA}) or salt. ← Wikipedia

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