good idea

diff --git a/doc/todo/htpasswd_mirror_of_the_userdb.mdwn b/doc/todo/htpasswd_mirror_of_the_userdb.mdwn
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@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 [[!tag wishlist]]
 
-Ikiwiki is static, so access control for viewing the wiki must be implemented on the web server side. Managing wiki users and access together, we can currently
+Ikiwiki is static, so access control for viewing the wiki must be
+implemented on the web server side. Managing wiki users and access
+together, we can currently
 
 * use [[httpauth|plugins/httpauth/]], but some [[passwordauth|plugins/passwordauth]] functionnality [[is missing|todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth/]];
 * use [[passwordauth|plugins/passwordauth]] plus [[an Apache `mod_perl` authentication mechanism|plugins/passwordauth/discussion/]], but this is Apache-centric and enabling `mod_perl` just for auth seems overkill.
 
-Moreover, when ikiwiki is just a part of a wider web project, we may want to use the same userdb for the other parts of this project.
+Moreover, when ikiwiki is just a part of a wider web project, we may want
+to use the same userdb for the other parts of this project.
 
-I think an ikiwiki plugin which would (re)generate an htpasswd version of the user/passwd base (better, two htpasswd files, one with only the wiki admins and one with everyone) each time an user is added or modified would solve this problem:
+I think an ikiwiki plugin which would (re)generate an htpasswd version of
+the user/passwd base (better, two htpasswd files, one with only the wiki
+admins and one with everyone) each time an user is added or modified would
+solve this problem:
 
 * access control can be managed from the web server
 * user management is handled by the passwordauth plugin
@@ -15,3 +21,9 @@ I think an ikiwiki plugin which would (re)generate an htpasswd version of the us
 * htpasswd files can be mirrored on other machines when the web site is distributed
 
 -- [[nil]] 
+
+> I think this is a good idea. Although unless the password hashes that
+> are stored in the userdb are compatible with htpasswd hashes, 
+> the htpasswd hashes will need to be stored in the userdb too. Then
+> any userdb change can just regenerate the htpasswd file, dumping out
+> the right kind of hashes. --[[Joey]]