MKPASSWD

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: June 3, 1986
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NAME

mkpasswd - generate hashed password table

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/mkpasswd [ -v ] passwdfile

DESCRIPTION

Mkpasswd is used to generated the hashed password database used by the library routines getpwnam() and getpwuid(). If the -v option is supplied, each entry will be listed as it is added. The file passwdfile is usually /etc/ptmp, and in any case must be in the format of /etc/passwd (see passwd(5)). Mkpasswd will generate database files named passwdfile.pag and passwdfile.dir. Mkpasswd will exit with a non-zero exit code if any errors are detected.

FILES

passwdfile.pag - database filenames

passwdfile.dir