In article <20050901201049.GA789@wieland.net-tex.de>,
Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de> wrote:
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>Also sprach Stefan Schumacher (stefan@net-tex.de)
>> Jeremy C. Reed <reed <at> reedmedia.net> writes:
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>> > Does anyone know if we have a tool that allows you to choose the cipher 
>> > type (like md5, blowfish, des) and other attributes (like rounds or salt) 
>> > to create hashes (from stdin or command line)? Maybe openssl(1) could be 
>> > used to create hashes that are compatible with crypt(3)?
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>Accidentally (sic) I stumbled across pwhash(1). It offers all we are 
>looking for.
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>Unfortunately, it is not mentioned in the "SEE ALSO" section of
>passwd(5), passwd.conf(5), passwd(1) and so on, could someone fix this?

Please send-pr about it.


christos