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Diffstat (limited to 'mkpasswd.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | mkpasswd.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ Use the \fISTRING\fP as salt. It must not contain prefixes such as \fI$1$\fP. Use \fINUMBER\fP 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. +The behavior is undefined if this option is used without \fI--method\fP. .TP .B -m, --method=TYPE Compute the password using the \fITYPE\fP method. If \fITYPE\fP is \fIhelp\fP then the available methods are printed. +If \fITYPE\fP begins and end with \fI$\fP characters then the string +is passed to \fIcrypt_gensalt(3)\fP as-is. .TP .B -5 Like \fI--method=md5\fP. @@ -49,6 +52,8 @@ This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis. .IR passwd(1), .IR passwd(5), .IR crypt(3), +.IR crypt(5), +.IR crypt_gensalt(3), .IR getpass(3) .SH AUTHOR .B mkpasswd |