generate_passwd(1)

generate_passwd1

Program to des encrypt a password like unix

Usage

generate_passwd [salt]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the generate_passwd command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

generate_passwd is a program to des encrypt a password like Unix. It prompts for the password to encrypt. You can optionally supply a salt to verify a password.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0–3.1
  3. 4.0

Author

This manual page was written by Carlos Barros <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From tac-plus 1:4.0.4.alpha-14 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.