.TH MKPASSWD 1 "11 October 2002" "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. It must not contain prefixes like \fI$1$\fP.
.TP
.B -H, --hash=TYPE
Compute the password using the \fITYPE\fP algorithm.
If \fITYPE\fP is missing available algorithms are printed.
.TP
.B -P, --password-fd=NUM
Read the password from file descriptor \fINUM\fP instead of using
\fIgetpass(3)\fP.
If the file descriptor is not connected to a tty then no other message
than the hashed password is printed on stdout.
.TP
.B -s, --stdin
Like \fI--password-fd=0\fP.
.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.