What does "ht" mean in "htaccess" and "htpasswd"? Why is “access” a full word, but “o” and “r” were cut out of “passwd”?

Question

linux

1. What does "ht" mean in "htaccess" and "htpasswd"?
2. Why is "access" a full word, but "o" and "r" were cut out of "passwd"?

Answer 1

1. http
2. Because passwd is such a command to manage passwords.
ZY: And still there is such function creat (). Not create(), but creat() :)

Answer 2

1. The same as in http, HyperText (Google for help)
2. This is the name of the utility in unix systems for managing passwords. I do not know the true history of this name. I will assume that in the days of ancient dos, when there was a limit of 8 characters in names, the word password was shortened like this. Access fit into 8 characters.

Answer 3

I don’t understand what kind of nonsense they write above about DOS, when Apache never worked under it.
Obviously, this is due to the 8-character file extension length limit for some file systems. Usually it is 3-4 characters.