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).