X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/hcoop/debian/courier-authlib.git/blobdiff_plain/8d138742ae268344f406cb75d79aa6bf853f9d87..refs/tags/upstream/0.66.1:/authpasswd.1 diff --git a/authpasswd.1 b/authpasswd.1 index 6116a68..e628f22 100644 --- a/authpasswd.1 +++ b/authpasswd.1 @@ -1,85 +1,100 @@ -.\" +'\" t .\" .\" .\" Title: authpasswd -.\" Author: -.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.2 -.\" Date: 12/06/2008 +.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 +.\" Date: 08/25/2013 .\" Manual: Double Precision, Inc. .\" Source: Double Precision, Inc. +.\" Language: English .\" -.TH "AUTHPASSWD" "1" "12/06/2008" "Double Precision, Inc." "Double Precision, Inc." +.TH "AUTHPASSWD" "1" "08/25/2013" "Double Precision, Inc." "Double Precision, Inc." +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" -authpasswd - Generate login passwords +authpasswd \- Generate login passwords .SH "SYNOPSIS" -.HP 11 +.HP \w'\fBauthpasswd\fR\ 'u \fBauthpasswd\fR [method] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP - \fBauthpasswd\fR -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\. +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\&. \fBauthpasswd\fR -issues a password prompt\. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes)\. +issues a password prompt\&. Enter the same password twice (for verification purposes)\&. \fBauthpasswd\fR -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 +computes and prints the encrypted password\&. The encrypted password can be inserted verbatim into the appropriate account record that\*(Aqs processed by the authentication library\*(Aqs authmysql, -authpgsql, or +authpgsql, +authsqlite, or authldap -module\. +module\&. .PP - \fImethod\fR may be set to one of the following literals: .PP crypt .RS 4 Use the traditional -DES\-based encrypted password\. +DES\-based encrypted password\&. .RE .PP md5 .RS 4 Compute a base64\-encoded MD5 -password hash\. +password hash\&. .RE .PP md5raw .RS 4 Compute a hexadecimal\-encoded MD5 -password hash\. +password hash\&. .RE .PP sha1 .RS 4 Compute a SHA1 -password hash\. +password hash\&. .RE .PP ssha .RS 4 Compute a salted SHA1 -password hash\. +password hash\&. .RE .PP sha256 .RS 4 Compute a SHA256 -password hash\. +password hash\&. .RE .PP If not specified, \fImethod\fR defaults to the modified\-MD5 -password encryption algorithm that\'s used in Linux (note that this is different from the +password encryption algorithm that\*(Aqs used in Linux (note that this is different from the \(lqmd5\(rq -password hash method)\. +password hash method)\&.