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.
thank you ミユナ alice
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
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:
On 24/04/22 22:45, ミユナ (alice) wrote:
ok the helps says:
pw [-l] [-p plaintext]
i just thought it specifies the text file.
thanks for clarifying it.
Bernardo Reino wrote:
The argument to "-p" is not a file containing the password, but the password itself!
The downside of putting the password on the command line is that it will (briefly) be visible in the output of 'ps':
richard 9449 0.0 0.0 5040 3616 pts/4 R+ 19:27 0:00 /usr/bin/doveconf -f service=doveadm -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -m doveadm -e /usr/bin/doveadm pw -p asdf
Cheers, Richard
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 07:30:16PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
The downside of putting the password on the command line is that it will (briefly) be visible in the output of 'ps':
richard 9449 0.0 0.0 5040 3616 pts/4 R+ 19:27 0:00 /usr/bin/doveconf -f service=doveadm -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -m doveadm -e /usr/bin/doveadm pw -p asdf
Can this problem not be solved by using pw -p "$(some cmd to echo the password)"?
E.g. if using Jason Donenfeld's password store application "pass",1:
pw -p "$(pass Email/mydomain.com)"Sam
Can this problem not be solved by using
pw -p "$(some cmd to echo the password)"?
There is also the history command which would show passwords on command lines. Don't supply a password on the command line and doveadm will prompt you to type an invisible password same as linux passwd does.
doveadm pw -s [scheme]
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Bernardo Reino
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Richard Hector
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Sam Kuper
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ミユナ (alice)