mkpasswd--1

MKPASSWD(1)                    Debian GNU/Linux                    MKPASSWD(1)



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. 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 get-
              pass(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 char-
       acters 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 AT linux.it>
       and are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.




Marco d'Itri                    11 October 2002                    MKPASSWD(1)