Ever had to add hundreds or even thousands of usernames to a htaccess file at once? Although rare this problem has come up for me recently (strangely enough with the same password as the username - obviously not a secure method but something that was necessary for the project).

The solution I created for this problem is htpmake, essentially a PHP script that takes a text file and outputs a file that of usernames and passwords you can use with your htaccess file.

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