| 1 | <?xml version="1.0"?> |
| 2 | <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>authpasswd</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"/><link rel="home" href="#authpasswd" title="authpasswd"/><link xmlns="" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manpage.css"/><meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/><!-- |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Copyright 1998 - 2009 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution |
| 5 | information. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | --></head><body><div class="refentry"><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"><a id="idm255243391984" shape="rect"> </a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p> |
| 8 | <span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> is a helper utility that generates encrypted |
| 9 | passwords for the |
| 10 | Courier authentication library. |
| 11 | The Courier authentication library is capable of using several different |
| 12 | encryption methods for storing passwords. |
| 13 | <span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> issues a password prompt. |
| 14 | Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes). |
| 15 | <span class="command"><strong>authpasswd</strong></span> computes and prints the encrypted password. |
| 16 | The encrypted password can be inserted verbatim into the appropriate |
| 17 | account record that's processed by the authentication library's |
| 18 | <code class="literal">authmysql</code>, |
| 19 | <code class="literal">authpgsql</code>, |
| 20 | <code class="literal">authsqlite</code>, |
| 21 | or <code class="literal">authldap</code> module.</p><p> |
| 22 | <em class="replaceable"><code>method</code></em> may be set to one of the following |
| 23 | literals:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">crypt</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 24 | Use the traditional <acronym class="acronym">DES</acronym>-based encrypted password.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">md5</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 25 | Compute a base64-encoded <acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">md5raw</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 26 | Compute a hexadecimal-encoded <acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">sha1</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 27 | Compute a <acronym class="acronym">SHA1</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">ssha</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 28 | Compute a salted <acronym class="acronym">SHA1</acronym> password hash.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">sha256</span></dt><dd><p> |
| 29 | Compute a <acronym class="acronym">SHA256</acronym> password hash.</p></dd></dl></div><p> |
| 30 | If not specified, |
| 31 | <em class="replaceable"><code>method</code></em> defaults to the |
| 32 | modified-<acronym class="acronym">MD5</acronym> password encryption algorithm that's used |
| 33 | in Linux (note that this is different from the <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">md5</span>”</span> password |
| 34 | hash method).</p></div></div></body></html> |