> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Signoretto [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013 19:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: R: Change console admin password and related documentation
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Da: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Inviato: martedì 15 gennaio 2013 18:15
> > A: [email protected]
> > Oggetto: Re: Change console admin password and related documentation
> >
> >
> > On 15/01/2013 18:09, Denis Signoretto wrote:
> > > I saved the page as "Set administration console credentials"
> > >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Set+admini
> > stration+console+credentials
> > > feel free to adjust my english :)
> >
> > Changed again the title to "Set administrator credentials"
> > since you are
> > defining admin credentials for everything (console and core RESTful
> > services).
> >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Set+admini
> strator+credentials
> 
> Could you please add how to generate MD5 and SHA1 under Windows?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> As far as I know, Windows don't have native command line tools for ms5 or
> sha1 evaluation.
> 
> The best Microsoft native tool I found is "File Checksum Integrity Verifier"
> utility.
> This tool can only works with files. It requires to save cleartext password 
> in a
> file and run at command prompt "fciv.exe -sha1|-md5 password.txt". It
> seams to produce expected values :)
> 
> Alternatives could be CoreUtils for Windows [2] or Cygwin [3].
> 
> Which solution do you suggest as a reference for Syncope documentation?
> (all of them? :))
> 
> Does Anybody knows a better solution?

How about just linking to this website: http://www.hashgenerator.de/

It is a very simple to use platform independent way of generating (SHA1, MD5, 
...) hash values.

Regards.
Jan

> 
> Do you thing adding a Java native command line tool to Syncope can make it
> easyer?
> 
> Regards.
> Denis
> 
> [1] - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290
> [2] - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
> [3] - http://cygwin.com/
> 
> P.S. I propose to add following note to the documentation: If special
> characters are used in cleartext password, expected encoding is UTF-8.

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