MAKEKEY(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MAKEKEY(8)NAMEmakekey — make encrypted keys or passwords
SYNOPSISmakekeyDESCRIPTIONmakekey encrypts a key and salt which it reads from the standard input
and writes the result to the standard output. The key is expected to be
eight bytes; the salt is expected to be two bytes. See crypt(3) for more
information on what characters the key and salt can contain and how the
encrypted value is calculated.
SEE ALSOlogin(1), crypt(3)HISTORY
A makekey command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
BSD December 11, 1993 BSD