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Avoid opportunity for copy-paste trouble
Allen Riddell 7 years ago
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 Setting `password_hash` for your mail users is a bit tricky. You can generate one using [doveadm-pw](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Pw).
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 Setting `password_hash` for your mail users is a bit tricky. You can generate one using [doveadm-pw](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Pw).
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-    # doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT
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-    Enter new password: foo
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-    Retype new password: foo
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-    {SHA512-CRYPT}$6$drlIN9fx7Aj7/iLu$XvjeuQh5tlzNpNfs4NwxN7.HGRLglTKism0hxs2C1OvD02d3x8OBN9KQTueTr53nTJwVShtCYiW80SGXAjSyM0
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+    # doveadm pw -p'YOUR_PASSWORD' -s SHA512-CRYPT | sed -e 's/{.*}//'
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+    $6$drlIN9fx7Aj7/iLu$XvjeuQh5tlzNpNfs4NwxN7.HGRLglTKism0hxs2C1OvD02d3x8OBN9KQTueTr53nTJwVShtCYiW80SGXAjSyM0
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-Remove `{SHA512-CRYPT}` and insert the rest as the `password_hash` value.
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+`sed` is used here to truncate the hash type from the beginning of the `doveadm pw` output.
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 Alternatively, if you don’t already have `doveadm` installed, Python 3.3 or higher on Linux will generate the appropriate string for you (assuming your password is `password`):
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 Alternatively, if you don’t already have `doveadm` installed, Python 3.3 or higher on Linux will generate the appropriate string for you (assuming your password is `password`):
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