Please enter your userids and passwords, one pair per line, separated with
a space and/or a colon (:). The first space or colon will end the userid, the
rest of the line will be the password. Only the first 8 characters of the
password are significant. ex.:
<pre>
  userone: firstpass
  seconduser passwordtwo
  three: pwd with spaces
</pre>
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<form method=POST action="mkpasswd">
<textarea name=data rows=10 cols=60>
</textarea><br>
<input type=submit>
</form>

When you hit the submit button you're going to get a list of userids 
and encrypted passwords back (separated by a colon, one pair per line). 
Copy this into your password file. <P>

For convenience, your password file is refered to by the AuthUserFile line
in your your .htaccess file. The complete .htaccess file will 
look something like this: <P>

<pre>
  Authtype Basic
  AuthName "secure area"
  Require  valid-user
  AuthUserFile /home/USERID/DOCROOT/SUBDIR.../PASSWORDFILE
</pre>
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Note that passwords are "randomly" encrypted. If you simply hit reload, 
there is only a 1 in 4096 chance that a password will have the same 
encrypted value.
<P>
Here is one example of an encryption of the above input:
<pre>
  userone:/5Gd39Cowzu5c
  seconduser:ktsudxoI79bPk
  three:cDA58HmdZDcfo
</pre>
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