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
$1$.
-R, --rounds=NUMBER
Use NUMBER rounds. This argument is ignored if the method
choosen does not support variable rounds. For the OpenBSD Blow‐
fish 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.
-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.
ENVIRONMENT
MKPASSWD_OPTIONS
A list of options which will be evalued before the ones speci‐
fied on the command line.
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 ALSOpasswd(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 General Public License,
version 2 or higher.
Marco d'Itri 21 March 2008 MKPASSWD(1)