December 11, 1993 MAKEKEY 8

### NAME

makekey - make encrypted keys or passwords

### SYNOPSIS

makekey

### DESCRIPTION

makekey encrypts 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 eight 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(3)

### HISTORY

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