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64ff59ba 7--></head><body><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="authpasswd" shape="rect"> </a><div class="titlepage"/><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>authpasswd — Generate login passwords</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">authpasswd</code> [method]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id297626" shape="rect"> </a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>
8<span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> is a helper utility that generates encrypted
d9898ee8 9passwords for the
10Courier authentication library.
11The Courier authentication library is capable of using several different
12encryption methods for storing passwords.
64ff59ba 13<span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> issues a password prompt.
d9898ee8 14Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes).
64ff59ba 15<span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> computes and prints the encrypted password.
d9898ee8 16The encrypted password can be inserted verbatim into the appropriate
17account record that's processed by the authentication library's
18<code class="literal">authmysql</code>,
19<code class="literal">authpgsql</code>,
20or <code class="literal">authldap</code> module.</p><p>
21<em class="replaceable"><code>method</code></em> may be set to one of the following
22literals:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">crypt</span></dt><dd><p>
23Use the traditional <acronym class="acronym">DES</acronym>-based encrypted password.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">md5</span></dt><dd><p>
64ff59ba 24Compute a base64-encoded <acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">md5raw</span></dt><dd><p>
25Compute a hexadecimal-encoded <acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">sha1</span></dt><dd><p>
d9898ee8 26Compute a <acronym class="acronym">SHA1</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">sha256</span></dt><dd><p>
27Compute a <acronym class="acronym">SHA256</acronym> password hash.</p></dd></dl></div><p>
28If not specified,
29<em class="replaceable"><code>method</code></em> defaults to the
30modified-<acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password encryption algorithm that's used
31in Linux (note that this is different from the “<span class="quote">md5</span>” password
32hash method).</p></div></div></body></html>