openssl passwd

The openssl passwd command can be used to compute password hashes.

openssl passwd examples

To compute the password hash without a salt, run the following command:

openssl passwd -crypt password

To compute a salted password hash, run the following command using the crypt algorithm (which happens to be the default):

openssl passwd -crypt -salt some_salt password

To use any other algorithm, substitute -crypt with that algorithm. Supported password hashing algorithms include the following:

• -crypt
• -1 (MD5 based BSD password algorithm 1)
• -apr1
• -aixmd5
• -5
• -6

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