Man page 1 : mkpasswd

mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)

mkpasswd

R PASSWORD

R SALT

mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the

R crypt(3) libc function using the given salt.

-S, --salt=STRING

    Use the STRING as salt. It must not contain prefixes such as $1$.

-R, --rounds=NUMBER

    Use NUMBER rounds. This argument is ignored if the method chosen does not support variable rounds. For the OpenBSD Blowfish method this is the logarithm of the number of rounds.

-m, --method=TYPE

    Compute the password using the TYPE method. If TYPE is help then the available methods are printed.

-5

    Like --method=md5.

-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.

MKPASSWD_OPTIONS A list of options which will be evalued before the ones specified on the command line.

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.
      .SH "SEE ALSO" passwd(1), passwd(5), crypt(3), getpass(3)

mkpasswd and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <> and are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or higher.