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Manual Reference Pages  - MKPASSWD (1)

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mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)

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mkpasswd PASSWORD SALT

mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function using the given salt.

-S, --salt=STRING
	Use the STRING as salt. It must not contain prefixes like $1$.
-H, --hash=TYPE
	Compute the password using the TYPE algorithm. If TYPE is missing available algorithms are printed.
-P, --password-fd=NUM
	Read the password from file descriptor NUM instead of using getpass(3). If the file descriptor is not connected to a tty then no other message than the hashed password is printed on stdout.
-s, --stdin
	Like --password-fd=0.

If the --stdin option is used, passwords containing some control characters may not be read correctly.

This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis.

passwd(1), passwd(5), crypt(3), getpass(3)

mkpasswd and this man page were written by Marco d’Itri <md@linux.it> and are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.