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I am using .htpasswd to password protect certain directory on my server. However, I noticed that everytime I do this sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd newuser my current contents of .htpasswd will be overwritten. Every directory of my site has their own user on .htpasswd.
How can I not overwrite instead add a new user on my .htpasswd?
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To remove a user: Just open the password file using nano or vim and simply remove the user line that you want to delete...
htpasswd file is typically used when protecting a file, folder, or entire website with a password using HTTP authentication and implemented using rules within the . htaccess file. User credentials are stored on separate lines, with each line containing a username and password separated by a colon (:).
htpasswd, use the “-c” option to create the file with the first user. It will prompt you for a password and encrypt it for you. The AuthUserFile location doesn't need to be in the same folder as your virtualhost. It can be anywhere on your server as long as you use the full path to it.
Exact same thing, just omit the -c option. Apache's docs on it here.
htpasswd /etc/apache2/.htpasswd newuser
Also, htpasswd typically isn't run as root. It's typically owned by either the web server, or the owner of the files being served. If you're using root to edit it instead of logging in as one of those users, that's acceptable (I suppose), but you'll want to be careful to make sure you don't accidentally create a file as root (and thus have root own it and no one else be able to edit it).
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FWIW, htpasswd -n username will output the result directly to stdout, and avoid touching files altogether.
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