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I wish to protect a binary download on an AWS using basic authentication. In the short term and as proof of concept I can use a password file. However, the number of users is likely to grow large enough to make a file-based solution a performance issue.

I have been trying to use htdbm to create and manage the user/password list like this:

sudo htdbm -c -T SDBM /var/www/.fileaccess.db

which returns:

Error opening database SDBM
This function has not been implemented on this platform

(I have tried using all of (SDBM|GDBM|DB|default)). Using dbmmanage is deprecated.

I don't understand exactly what function is not implemented on this platform, and I would be grateful for any assistance in how to implement it.

J.B
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There is no space expected after -T. 

$ sudo htdbm -c -TSDBM /path/to/file username

Remember not to put the database file in a place where it can be downloaded.

Michael - sqlbot
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    Is the correct answer, many thanks. The very few examples I could find had it wrong. – J.B May 11 '17 at 08:04