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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 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 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 ALSO
       passwd(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)
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