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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