SASLPASSWD2(8)

💖 SASLPASSWD2(8) — the System Manager's Manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so we're doing saslpasswd2(8) today and honestly? it's giving admin glow-up ✨ it lives in the System Manager's Manual section, and it's the little tool that sets a user's sasl password. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

saslpasswd2 — set a user's sasl password 🔐

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

saslpasswd2 [-p] [-d] [-c] [-n] [-f file] [-u domain] [-a appname] [-v]
userid

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. saslpasswd2 is the thing a server administrator uses to set a user's sasl password — for server programs and SASL mechanisms that use the standard libsasl database of user secrets. that's the whole job. it's not complicated, it's just important, iykyk 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -p — pipe mode 🚰 saslpasswd2 will neither prompt you for the password nor verify that it was entered correctly. and fun fact: this is the default when standard input is not a terminal. so if you're piping, you already got pipe mode, no cap.
• -c — creates an entry for the user if the user doesn't already exist 🎀 giving main character energy to brand-new users. mutually exclusive with the -d (delete user) flag — you literally cannot do both, pick a lane bestie.
• -d — deletes the entry for the user 💀 bye felicia. mutually exclusive with the -c (create user) flag. same deal, one or the other, no in-between.
• -n — don't set the plaintext userPassword property for the user. only mechanism-specific secrets will be set (e.g. OTP, SCRAM, SRP) 🙈 so the plaintext vibe stays unset and you're rolling with the fancy mechanism-specific secrets instead.
• -u domain — use domain for user domain (realm) 🌈
• -f file — use file for sasldb 🍓
• -a appname — use appname as application name 👑
• -v — print libsasl2 version number and exit ⭐ short and sweet, it just tells you the version and dips.

and obviously there's the positional userid — that's the user you're doing all this for 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• sasldblistusers2(8) — go look at your users, nosy ✨
• rfc4422 — Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) 📜 the sacred text fr fr

🌸 friendly reminder: -c and -d are mutually exclusive, and -p skips both the prompt and the correctness check. know what you're typing before you type it, bestie 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 this one's from CMU SASL, dated Mar 7, 2005 — vintage but still iconic, periodt. mwah 🎀💖