1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)makekey.8 6.4 (Berkeley) 03/16/91 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MAKEKEY 8 10.Os ATT 7th 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm makekey 13.Nd make encrypted keys or passwords 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm makekey 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17.Nm Makekey 18encypts a key and salt which it reads from the standard input 19and writes the result to the standard output. 20The key is expected to be 21ten bytes; the salt is expected to be two bytes. 22See 23.Xr crypt 3 24for more information on what characters the key and salt can contain 25and how the encrypted value is calculated. 26.Sh SEE ALSO 27.Xr login 1 , 28.Xr crypt 1 , 29.Xr crypt 3 30.Sh HISTORY 31A 32.Nm 33command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. 34