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| 2 | .\" <!-- Copyright 2004-2008 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for --> |
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| 4 | .\" Title: authpasswd |
| 5 | .\" Author: |
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| 7 | .\" Date: 12/06/2008 |
| 8 | .\" Manual: Double Precision, Inc. |
| 9 | .\" Source: Double Precision, Inc. |
| 10 | .\" |
| 11 | .TH "AUTHPASSWD" "1" "12/06/2008" "Double Precision, Inc." "Double Precision, Inc." |
| 12 | .\" disable hyphenation |
| 13 | .nh |
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| 15 | .ad l |
| 16 | .SH "NAME" |
| 17 | authpasswd - Generate login passwords |
| 18 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| 19 | .HP 11 |
| 20 | \fBauthpasswd\fR [method] |
| 21 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| 22 | .PP |
| 23 | |
| 24 | \fBauthpasswd\fR |
| 25 | 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\. |
| 26 | \fBauthpasswd\fR |
| 27 | issues a password prompt\. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes)\. |
| 28 | \fBauthpasswd\fR |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | authmysql, |
| 31 | authpgsql, or |
| 32 | authldap |
| 33 | module\. |
| 34 | .PP |
| 35 | |
| 36 | \fImethod\fR |
| 37 | may be set to one of the following literals: |
| 38 | .PP |
| 39 | crypt |
| 40 | .RS 4 |
| 41 | Use the traditional |
| 42 | DES\-based encrypted password\. |
| 43 | .RE |
| 44 | .PP |
| 45 | md5 |
| 46 | .RS 4 |
| 47 | Compute a base64\-encoded |
| 48 | MD5 |
| 49 | password hash\. |
| 50 | .RE |
| 51 | .PP |
| 52 | md5raw |
| 53 | .RS 4 |
| 54 | Compute a hexadecimal\-encoded |
| 55 | MD5 |
| 56 | password hash\. |
| 57 | .RE |
| 58 | .PP |
| 59 | sha1 |
| 60 | .RS 4 |
| 61 | Compute a |
| 62 | SHA1 |
| 63 | password hash\. |
| 64 | .RE |
| 65 | .PP |
| 66 | ssha |
| 67 | .RS 4 |
| 68 | Compute a salted |
| 69 | SHA1 |
| 70 | password hash\. |
| 71 | .RE |
| 72 | .PP |
| 73 | sha256 |
| 74 | .RS 4 |
| 75 | Compute a |
| 76 | SHA256 |
| 77 | password hash\. |
| 78 | .RE |
| 79 | .PP |
| 80 | If not specified, |
| 81 | \fImethod\fR |
| 82 | defaults to the modified\-MD5 |
| 83 | password encryption algorithm that\'s used in Linux (note that this is different from the |
| 84 | \(lqmd5\(rq |
| 85 | password hash method)\. |