sshapw

Echo a salted sha1 hash that can be used for Dovecot and Nginx.

Note

It is advised to use SHA512-CRYPT which is supported since glibc 2.7. If you are on Ubuntu or Debian you can install whois that ships the mkpasswd(1) utility.

Example

Create a password with a random salt.

$ sshapw
password: 
repeat password: 
{SSHA}aAgZV8uMFd5+yZJ0AKMZDq7ZbO/c6OrcE4Uy0wlp9UN89/bNIKTGN3Uy1h/r22FyOtLxyg==

Installation

If you have npm installed on your system:

$ sudo npm install -g sshapw

If you don't have npm a simple shell script is included:

https://github.com/timkuijsten/node-sshapw/blob/master/sshapw.sh

This script works out of the box with OpenBSD 5.7, OS X 10.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.

Todo

• create an option to verify a given hash
• write some tests

License

ISC

Copyright (c) 2015 Tim Kuijsten

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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