authpasswd â Generate login passwords
authpasswd [method]
-authpasswd is a helper utility that generated encrypted +-->
authpasswd â Generate login passwords
authpasswd [method]
+authpasswd 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.
-authpasswd issues a password prompt.
+authpasswd issues a password prompt.
Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes).
-authpasswd computes and prints the encrypted password.
+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,
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ 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 base64-encoded MD5 password hash.
+Compute a hexadecimal-encoded MD5 password hash.
Compute a SHA1 password hash.
Compute a SHA256 password hash.
If not specified,