.TH MKPASSWD 1 "5 June 2001" "Marco d'Itri" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.SH NAME
mkpasswd \- Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkpasswd
.BR PASSWORD
.BR SALT
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mkpasswd
encrypts the given password with the
.BR crypt(3)
libc function using the given salt.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -S, --salt=STRING
Use the \fISTRING\fP as salt.
.TP
.B -H, --hash=TYPE
Compute the password using the \fITYPE\fP algorithm.
.TP
.B -s, --stdin
Read the password from stdin instead of using \fIgetpass(3)\fP.
If stdin is not connected to a tty then no other message than the hashed
password is printed on stdout.
.SH BUGS
If the \fI--stdin\fP option is used, passwords containing some control
characters may not be read correctly.
.TP
This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR passwd(1),
.IR passwd(5),
.IR crypt(3),
.IR getpass(3)
.SH AUTHOR
.B mkpasswd
and this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
and are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.