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AUTHPASSWD(1) Double Precision, Inc. AUTHPASSWD(1)

NAME

authpasswd - Generate login passwords

SYNOPSIS

authpasswd [method]

DESCRIPTION

 
authpasswd is a helper utility that generates encrypted passwords for the Courier authentication library. The Courier authentication library is capable of using several different encryption methods for storing passwords. authpasswd issues a password prompt. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes). authpasswd computes and prints the encrypted password. The encrypted password can be inserted verbatim into the appropriate account record that´s processed by the authentication library´s authmysql, authpgsql, or authldap module.
 
method may be set to one of the following literals:
crypt
Use the traditional DES-based encrypted password.
md5
Compute a base64-encoded MD5 password hash.
md5raw
Compute a hexadecimal-encoded MD5 password hash.
sha1
Compute a SHA1 password hash.
ssha
Compute a salted SHA1 password hash.
sha256
Compute a SHA256 password hash.
If not specified, method defaults to the modified-MD5 password encryption algorithm that´s used in Linux (note that this is different from the “md5” password hash method).
12/06/2008 Double Precision, Inc.