generate NGINX salted SHA1 password dumps

gistfile1.py

import subprocess
import hashlib
import base64

username=raw_input("username:")
password =raw_input("password:")

# use openssl to generate securly a salt
pipe = subprocess.Popen("openssl rand -base64 3", shell=True, bufsize=100, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
salt = pipe.readline().rstrip()
pipe.close()

m = hashlib.sha1()
m.update(password+salt)

hash = m.digest()+salt

print "copy paste the following line to your password file"
print username+":{SSHA}"+base64.b64encode(hash)