NAME
authpasswd - Generate login passwords
SYNOPSIS
authpasswd [method]
DESCRIPTION
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. 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:
crypt
Use the traditional DES-based encrypted password.
md5
Compute a base64-encoded MD5 password hash.
md5raw
Compute a hexadecimal-encoded MD5 password hash.
sha1
Compute a SHA1 password hash.
ssha
Compute a salted SHA1 password hash.
sha256
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).