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Groff
.TH MKPASSWD 1 "5 June 2001" "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.
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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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.TP
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.B -s, --stdin
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Read the password from stdin instead of using \fIgetpass(3)\fP.
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If stdin is not connected to a tty then no other message than the hashed
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password is printed on stdout.
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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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