md5crypt3trf

Usage

Overview

The command md5crypt is for the encryption of passwords and uses md5 as hash algorithm. An alternative command for the same function, but based on the older crypt(3) hash function is crypt.

md5crypt password salt

Encrypts the password using the specified salt and returns the generated hash value as the result of the command.

Keywords

authentication, crypt, hash, hashing, mac, md5, message digest, password