Mkpasswd (1) centos man page mkpasswd generates passwords and can apply them automatically to users. Mkpasswd is based on the code from Chapter 23 of the O'Reilly book 'Exploring Expect'. With no arguments, mkpasswd returns a new password. Mkpasswd With a user name, mkpasswd assigns a new password to the user. Mkpasswd don The. When running mkpasswd from a Windows or Mac console login, the hash will be placed in the clipboard so you can immediately paste it into the AuthFile. If you are running mkpasswd remotely, such as via SSH, make sure that you select all 80 characters when copying it. Mkpasswd does not change your AuthFile.
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see also : passwd
Synopsis
mkpasswdPASSWORD SALT
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description
mkpasswdencrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libcfunction using the given salt.
options
-S,--salt=STRING
Use the STRING as salt.It must not contain prefixes such as $1$.
-R, --rounds=NUMBER
Use NUMBER rounds. Thisargument is ignored if the method chosen does not supportvariable rounds. For the OpenBSD Blowfish method this is thelogarithm of the number of rounds.
-m, --method=TYPE
Compute the password using theTYPE method. If TYPE is help then theavailable methods are printed.
-5
Like --method=md5.
-P,--password-fd=NUM
Read the password from filedescriptor NUM instead of using getpass(3). Ifthe file descriptor is not connected to a tty then no othermessage than the hashed password is printed on stdout.
-s, --stdin
Like--password-fd=0.
environment
MKPASSWD_OPTIONS
A list of options which will be evalued before the ones specified on the command line.
bugs
Mkpasswd Ubuntu
If the--stdin option is used, passwords containing somecontrol characters may not be read correctly.
This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis.
Linux Mkpasswd
Mkpasswd Linux
see also
passwd ,passwd, crypt, getpass
Mkpasswd Windows
author
Mkpasswd Linux
mkpasswdand this man page were written by Marco d’Itri<md[:at:]linux[:dot:]it> and are licensed under the termsof the GNU General Public License, version 2 or higher.