DOVEADM-PW(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-PW(1)NAMEdoveadm-pw - Dovecot's password hash generator
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] pw -l
doveadm [-Dv] pw [-p password] [-r rounds] [-s scheme] [-u user] [-V]
doveadm [-Dv] pw -t hash [-p password] [-u user]
DESCRIPTION
doveadm pw is used to generate password hashes for different password
schemes and optionally verify the generated hash.
All generated password hashes have a {scheme} prefix, for example
{SHA512-CRYPT.HEX}. All passdbs have a default scheme for passwords
stored without the {scheme} prefix. The default scheme can be overrid‐
den by storing the password with the scheme prefix.
OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-o setting=value
Overrides the configuration setting from /usr/local/etc/dove‐
cot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In
order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be speci‐
fied multiple times.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
Command specific options:
-l List all supported password schemes and exit successfully.
There are up to three optional password schemes: BLF-CRYPT
(Blowfish crypt), SHA256-CRYPT and SHA512-CRYPT. Their avail‐
ability depends on the system's currently used libc.
-p password
The plain text password for which the hash should be generated.
If no password was given doveadm(1) will prompt interactively
for one.
-r rounds
The password schemes BLF-CRYPT, SHA256-CRYPT and SHA512-CRYPT
supports a variable number of encryption rounds. The following
table shows the minimum/maximum number of encryption rounds per
scheme. When the -r option was omitted the default number of
encryption rounds will be applied.
Scheme | Minimum | Maximum | Default
----------------------------------------------
BLF-CRYPT | 4 | 31 | 5
SHA256-CRYPT | 1000 | 999999999 | 5000
SHA512-CRYPT | 1000 | 999999999 | 5000
-s scheme
The password scheme which should be used to generate the hashed
password. By default the CRAM-MD5 scheme will be used. It is
also possible to append an encoding suffix to the scheme. Sup‐
ported encoding suffixes are: .b64, .base64 and .hex.
See also http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes
for more details about password schemes.
-t hash
Test if the given password hash matches a given plain text pass‐
word. You should enclose the password hash in single quotes, if
it contains one or more dollar signs ($). The plain text pass‐
word may be passed using the -p option. When no password was
specified, doveadm(1) will prompt interactively for one.
-u user
When the DIGEST-MD5 scheme is used, also the user name must be
given, because the user name is a part of the generated hash.
For more information about Digest-MD5 please read also:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms/DigestMD5
-V When this option is given, the hashed password will be inter‐
nally verified. The result of the verification will be shown
after the hashed password, enclosed in parenthesis.
EXAMPLE
The first password hash is a DIGEST-MD5 hash for jane.roe@example.com.
The second password hash is a CRAM-MD5 hash for john.doe@example.com.
doveadm pw -s digest-md5 -u jane.roe@example.com
Enter new password:
Retype new password:
{DIGEST-MD5}9b9dcb4466233a9307bbc33708dffda0
doveadm pw
Enter new password:
Retype new password:
{CRAM-MD5}913331d8782236a8ecba7764a63aa27b26437fd40ca878d887f11d81245c2c6b
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
<dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available
at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSOdoveadm(1)Dovecot v2.2 2015-06-05 DOVEADM-PW(1)
