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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
<li>
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html#authdigestprovider">AuthDigestProvider</a></code>
</li>
+<li><a href="../misc/password_encryptions.html">Password Formats</a></li>
</ul></div>
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@@ -110,6 +111,11 @@ passwords for authentication</td></tr>
download the <code class="directive">AuthDBMUserFile</code>.</p>
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+ <p>The encrypted password format depends on which authentication
+ frontend (e.g. <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_basic.html">mod_authn_basic</a></code> or
+ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_digest.html">mod_authn_digest</a></code>) is being used. See <a href="../misc/password_encryptions.html">Password Formats</a> for
+ more information.</p>
+
<p>Important compatibility note: The implementation of
<code>dbmopen</code> in the apache modules reads the string length of
the hashed values from the DBM data structures, rather than relying