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.TH MKPASSWD 1 "11 October 2002" "Marco d'Itri" "Debian GNU/Linux" |
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.SH NAME |
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mkpasswd \- Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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.B mkpasswd |
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.BR PASSWORD |
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.BR SALT |
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.PP |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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.B mkpasswd |
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encrypts the given password with the |
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.BR crypt(3) |
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libc function using the given salt. |
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.SH OPTIONS |
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.TP |
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.B -S, --salt=STRING |
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Use the \fISTRING\fP as salt. It must not contain prefixes such as \fI$1$\fP. |
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.TP |
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.B -H, --hash=TYPE |
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Compute the password using the \fITYPE\fP algorithm. |
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If \fITYPE\fP is \fIhelp\fP available algorithms are printed. |
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.TP |
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.B -P, --password-fd=NUM |
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Read the password from file descriptor \fINUM\fP instead of using |
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\fIgetpass(3)\fP. |
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If the file descriptor is not connected to a tty then no other message |
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than the hashed password is printed on stdout. |
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.TP |
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.B -s, --stdin |
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Like \fI--password-fd=0\fP. |
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.SH BUGS |
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If the \fI--stdin\fP option is used, passwords containing some control |
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characters may not be read correctly. |
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.TP |
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This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis. |
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.SH "SEE ALSO" |
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.IR passwd(1), |
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.IR passwd(5), |
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.IR crypt(3), |
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.IR getpass(3) |
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.SH AUTHOR |
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.B mkpasswd |
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and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> |
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and are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. |
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