how to encrypt password using htpasswd.lens

[nsandhu-godaddy]

It seems that when setting the password using the htpasswd.lens, it gets saved as plain text. Is it possible to save in one of the encrypted formats supported by htpasswd.

set username password

[georgehansper]

Generating encryption hashes is outside the scope of what augeas is designed to do

Having said that, it is possible to use augeas to insert or update an existing password-hash hash into a file.
ie instead of supplying augeas with a password to encrypt, it is possible to generate the password-hash outside of augeas, and use augeas to update the htpasswd file

Example:

PWHASH="$( htpasswd -nb -5 user001 mysecret | sed -e 's/user101://' )"
augtool --noload <<EOF
load-file /etc/httpd/htpasswd
set /files/etc/httpd/htpasswd/webuser ${PWHASH}
save
EOF

which would set the password for the user "webuser" to the being "mysecret"
If the file /etc/httpd/htpasswd does not exist, it will be created, along with the user "webuser"

In the above example, the shell is substituting the variable ${PWHASH}
augtool only sees the resulting hash, and has no part in generating it