NAME
makekey —
make encrypted keys or
passwords
SYNOPSIS
makekey |
DESCRIPTION
makekey 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
HISTORY
A makekey command appeared in
Version 7 AT&T UNIX.