MAKEKEY(8)                BSD System Manager's Manual               MAKEKEY(8)

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 in-
     formation on what characters the key and salt can contain and how the en-
     crypted value is calculated.

SEE ALSO
     login(1),  crypt(1),  crypt(3)

HISTORY
     A makekey command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

BSDI BSD/386                    March 27, 1993                               1