netbsd man page for makekey

MAKEKEY(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						MAKEKEY(8)

NAME
     makekey -- make encrypted keys or passwords

SYNOPSIS
     makekey

DESCRIPTION
     makekey encrypts a key and salt which it reads from the standard input and writes the result to the standard output.  The key is expected to
     be eight bytes; the salt is expected to be two bytes.  See crypt(3) for more information on what characters the key and salt can contain and
     how the encrypted value is calculated.

SEE ALSO
     login(1), crypt(3)

HISTORY
     A makekey command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

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								 December 11, 1993							       BSD