GNU/Linux |
Debian 4.0(Etch) |
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mkpasswd(1) |
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mkpasswd − Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)
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 such as $1$.
-H, --hash=TYPE
Compute the password using the TYPE algorithm. If TYPE is help 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.
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