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, authsqlite, 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).





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