> On 29. May 2020, at 23.09, Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> It would be useful to run the "doveadm" utility on a non-dovecot server e.g.
> generating password hashes:
>
> # echo plaintextpass | doveadm pw -s BLF-CRYPT
> doveadm(user): Fatal: Error reading configuration:
> stat(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such file or directory
>
> Is there a way to circumvent the need for a configuration file?
I don't think so. But you can specify the location of the config file with -c
/path/to/file
like
echo -n plaintextpass | doveadm -c /root/emptyfile.conf pw -s SHA1
Sami
