## 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`, `authsqlite`, 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).