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Encrypt a password using SSHA. Use this for your `htpasswd` files.
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encrypt-pw-ssha.sh
#!/bin/sh
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Faq#How_do_I_generate_an_htpasswd_file_without_having_Apache_tools_installed.3F
PASSWORD=$1;
SALT="$(openssl rand -base64 3)"
SHA1=$(printf "$PASSWORD$SALT" | openssl dgst -binary -sha1 | sed 's#$#'"$SALT"'#' | base64);
printf "{SSHA}$SHA1\n"
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PASSWORD=$(pwgen --capitalize --numerals --ambiguous 16 1)
SALT=$(openssl rand -base64 6)
PASSWORD_HASH="{SSHA512}$(echo -n "$PASSWORD$SALT" | openssl dgst -binary -sha512 | base64 -w 0)"

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