doveadm pw usage

[Bernardo Reino]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, ミユナ (alice) wrote:

> Hello
>
> when i want to assign a password to a user, I need to write the plain passwd 
> to a text file then do:
>
> # doveadm pw -p input.txt
> {CRAM-MD5}77180880...
>
>
> it's not that convenient to write to a file first.
>
> does it support the format below?
>
> doveadm pw "plain password"
>
> providing the plain password as CL argument to generate a encrypted one.

The argument to "-p" is not a file containing the password, but the password 
itself!

so in your example above, the password would be "input.txt", which is pretty 
weak :)

Cheers.
PS: man doveadm-pw