MKPASSWD

MKPASSWD

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS BUGS SEE ALSO AUTHOR

NAME

mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)

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.

-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 __