Phil Howard <ttiphil@gmail.com> (Mo 26 Apr 2010 22:31:45 CEST):
Is there a tool equivalent to the system "passwd" command (or maybe "adduser" or "useradd") that can support a passwd-file by setting a password, encrypting it with the salted MD5 scheme? The system "passwd" command doesn't have an option to "do it to this alternate file instead of /etc/shadow".
Some people use „htpasswd“, but there not password scheme is coded into the password hash.
It's not clear what you're seeking - some tool for generating the hashed string (e.g. „openssl passwd -1 "$cleartext"“) or some tool for managing the entries in the (dovecot) password file.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
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