doveadm pw usage

Sam Kuper sampablokuper at posteo.net
Sun Apr 24 11:36:12 UTC 2022


On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 06:45:19PM +0800, ミユナ (alice) wrote:
> Bernardo Reino wrote:
>> The argument to "-p" is not a file containing the password, but the
>> password itself!
>
> ok the helps says:
> 
> pw           [-l] [-p plaintext]
> 
> i just thought it specifies the text file.
> 
> thanks for clarifying it.

Easy mistake to make.

The orthographic difference between "plaintext" and "plain text" is
small.

The semantic difference is large:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text


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