X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/hcoop/debian/courier-authlib.git/blobdiff_plain/d9898ee81388d1eff40cf71e85d9ce9b5c1401fe..dd184caf1b0d37f50ea0ddcc68822bd38da32105:/authpasswd.1 diff --git a/authpasswd.1 b/authpasswd.1 index 56f3eb0..c251a08 100644 --- a/authpasswd.1 +++ b/authpasswd.1 @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ -.\" +.\" .\" .\" .\" Title: authpasswd .\" Author: -.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.72.0 -.\" Date: 04/22/2007 +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.2 +.\" Date: 10/07/2007 .\" Manual: Double Precision, Inc. .\" Source: Double Precision, Inc. .\" -.TH "AUTHPASSWD" "1" "04/22/2007" "Double Precision, Inc." "Double Precision, Inc." +.TH "AUTHPASSWD" "1" "10/07/2007" "Double Precision, Inc." "Double Precision, Inc." .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .SH "NAME" -authpasswd \- Generate login passwords +authpasswd - Generate login passwords .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP 11 \fBauthpasswd\fR [method] @@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ authpasswd \- Generate login passwords .PP \fBauthpasswd\fR -is a helper utility that generated encrypted passwords for the Courier authentication library. The Courier authentication library is capable of using several different encryption methods for storing passwords. +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\. \fBauthpasswd\fR -issues a password prompt. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes). +issues a password prompt\. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes)\. \fBauthpasswd\fR -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 +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. +module\. .PP \fImethod\fR @@ -39,33 +39,40 @@ may be set to one of the following literals: crypt .RS 4 Use the traditional -DES\-based encrypted password. +DES\-based encrypted password\. .RE .PP md5 .RS 4 -Compute an +Compute a base64\-encoded MD5 -password hash. +password hash\. +.RE +.PP +md5raw +.RS 4 +Compute a hexadecimal\-encoded +MD5 +password hash\. .RE .PP sha1 .RS 4 Compute a SHA1 -password hash. +password hash\. .RE .PP sha256 .RS 4 Compute a SHA256 -password hash. +password hash\. .RE .PP If not specified, \fImethod\fR defaults to the modified\-MD5 -password encryption algorithm that's used in Linux (note that this is different from the +password encryption algorithm that\'s used in Linux (note that this is different from the \(lqmd5\(rq -password hash method). +password hash method)\.