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-.TH MKPASSWD 1 "5 June 2001" "Marco d'Itri" "Debian GNU/Linux"
+.TH MKPASSWD 1 "11 October 2002" "Marco d'Itri" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.SH NAME
mkpasswd \- Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ libc function using the given salt.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -S, --salt=STRING
-Use the \fISTRING\fP as salt.
+Use the \fISTRING\fP as salt. It must not contain prefixes like \fI$1$\fP.
.TP
.B -H, --hash=TYPE
Compute the password using the \fITYPE\fP algorithm.