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Create a salted SHA512 password hash for use with Dovecot, updated for python 3
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
import os | |
import hashlib | |
import getpass | |
import base64 | |
password1 = None | |
password2 = None | |
# Read the password | |
while password1 != password2 or password1 == None: | |
password1 = getpass.getpass() | |
password2 = getpass.getpass("Confirm password: ") | |
if (password1 != password2): | |
print("\nPassword mismatch, try again.") | |
# Generate a 5 byte random salt | |
salt = os.urandom(5) | |
# Hash our password + salt | |
sha = hashlib.sha512() | |
sha.update(password1.encode('utf-8')) | |
sha.update(salt) | |
ssha512 = base64.b64encode('{}{}'.format(sha.digest(), salt).encode('utf-8')) | |
# Print it out with a prefix for Dovecot | |
print("\n{{SSHA512}}{}".format(ssha512)) |
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