Manual Reference Pages  - MKPASSWD (1)

NAME

mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Options
Bugs
Author

SYNOPSIS

mkpasswd PASSWORD SALT

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

-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.

BUGS

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.
 

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

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


Marco d’Itri MKPASSWD (1) 11 October 2002
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