authpasswd — Generate login passwords
authpasswd
[method]
authpasswd 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.
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
,
or authldap
module.
method
may be set to one of the following
literals:
Use the traditional DES-based encrypted password.
Compute an MD5 password hash.
Compute a SHA1 password hash.
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).