Name
makekey
Synopsis
makekey
Produces crypt password hashes. This can be used to automatically populate a password database from known passwords, or to make hashes of prospective passwords that can be subjected to cracking attempts before being put into use.
Options/usage
makekey takes no command-line arguments. It accepts a character string on standard input, consisting of an eight-character password combined with a two-character salt, which is used to permute the DES password encryption algorithm. (Use man
crypt for more information.) It prints a 13-character string to standard output, with the first two characters being the salt, and the other eleven characters being the password hash. The entire string is suitable for use as the password field in a standard Unix /etc/passwd-format file or as the value of the passwd
property in an Open Directory entry for a user employing Basic
authentication.
Example
$ echo password12 | /usr/libexec/makekey
12CsGd8FRcMSM
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