Modules/oper hash

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Description

Allows oper passwords to be hashed using a secure hashing algorithm rather than stored in plaintext.

Configuration Tags

To use this module, you must add the a value like the following to every oper in your configuration file that you want to have a hashed password:

<oper name="Brain" host="*@*" type="NetAdmin" hash="md5" password="ad0234829205b9033196ba818f7a872b">

The value for 'hash'may be either md5 or sha256, to select either MD5 hashing (less secure) or SHA256 hashing (more secure).

Additional Modes

None

Additional Commands

This module adds the following command:

/MKPASSWD <hash> <plaintext>

Encodes <plaintext> to a hash using the hashing algorithm <hash> and displays the result.

Special Notes

This module will operate alongside plaintext passwords. To use hashes simply replace the plaintext password in <oper:password> with the hash MKPASSWD gives you.

Please note that once you move ALL your oper passwords to hashes, you will be unable to oper up without this module loaded -- if you unload it, you will be left unable to reload it if you lose oper status.

This module can enumerate any module which implements the HashRequest interface. Currently, this includes m_sha256.so and m_md5.so