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AUTHPASSWD
Section: Double Precision, Inc. (1)
Updated: 10/07/2007
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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.
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
lqmd5rq
password hash method).
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