MAKEKEY(8)              386BSD 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
     information on what characters the key and salt can contain and how the
     encrypted value is calculated.

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

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

BSD Experimental                 July 1, 1991                                1