dovecot - Apr 2022 - doveadm pw usage

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
??? alice

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, ??? (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