Re: grub-md5-crypt question

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Karan Saberwal writes:

 > I have been trying to generate a script which will generate the md5 hash for
 > a string taken as input from the command line.

I use the openssl passwd command for this purpose, eg,

    $ openssl passwd -1 secret
    $1$Ia9cLJGU$q2Hj95gf4d8PFHRLKXFxz1

on my Debian system, the man page can be accessed thusly,

    $ man 1ssl passwd

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Jeff Sheinberg