mkpasswd-ratbox(8) [debian man page]

MKPASSWD-RATBOX(8)					      System Manager's Manual						MKPASSWD-RATBOX(8)

NAME

       mkpasswd-ratbox - Hash password to use with ratbox.

SYNOPSIS

       mkpasswd-ratbox	[-m|-d|-b|-e] [-l saltlength] [-r rounds] [-s salt] [-p plaintext]

DESCRIPTION

       -m Generate an MD5 password.

       -d Generate a DES password.

       -b Generate a BlowFish password.

       -e Generate an Extended DES password.

       -l Specify a length for a random MD5 or BlowFish salt.

       -r Specify a number of rounds for a BlowFish or Extended DES password.
	  BlowFish:  default 4, no more than 6 recommended
	  Extended DES:  default 25

       -s Specify a salt, 2 alphanumeric characters for DES, up to 16 for MD5, up to 22 for BlowFish, and 4 for Extended DES.

       -p Specify a plaintext password to use.

EXAMPLE

	 mkpasswd -m -s 3dr -p test

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Arnaud Cornet for debian and is distributed under the GPL.

								 09 September 2007						MKPASSWD-RATBOX(8)

MKPASSWD(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux						       MKPASSWD(1)

NAME

       mkpasswd - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)

SYNOPSIS

       mkpasswd PASSWORD SALT

DESCRIPTION

       mkpasswd encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function 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. 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.

       -m, --method=TYPE
	      Compute the password using the TYPE method.  If TYPE is help then the available methods are printed.

       -5     Like --method=md5.

       -P, --password-fd=NUM
	      Read the password from file descriptor NUM instead of using getpass(3).  If the file descriptor is not connected to a  tty  then	no
	      other message 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

       If the --stdin option is used, passwords containing some control characters may not be read correctly.

       This programs suffers of a bad case of featuritis.

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1), passwd(5), crypt(3), getpass(3)

AUTHOR

       mkpasswd  and  this man page were written by Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> and are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
       version 2 or higher.

Marco d'Itri							   21 March 2008						       MKPASSWD(1)