makekey(8)
NAME
makekey - make encrypted keys or passwords
SYNOPSIS
makekey
DESCRIPTION
- The makekey utility has been deprecated and will be removed
- in a future
release of FreeBSD. - The makekey utility encrypts 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 eight 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), openssl(1), crypt(3)
HISTORY
- A makekey utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
- BSD October 8, 2003