MAKEKEY

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NAME

makekey - make encrypted keys or passwords  

SYNOPSIS

makekey  

DESCRIPTION

Makekey encypts 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 ten 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(1), crypt(3)  

HISTORY

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


 

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