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    MKPASSWD(8)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	      MKPASSWD(8)

    NAME
         mkpasswd - generate hashed password table

    SYNOPSIS
         mkpasswd [ -p ] passwdfile

    DESCRIPTION
         Mkpasswd is used to generated the hashed password database
         used by the password library routines (see getpwent(3)).

         The file passwdfile must be in password file format (see
         passwd(5)).  Mkpasswd generates database files named
         ``passwdfile.pag'' and ``passwdfile.dir'' (see ndbm(3)).
         Data subsequently taken from the database files differ from
         passwdfile in one respect.  Rather than storing the
         encrypted password in the database, mkpasswd stores the
         offset of the encrypted password in passwdfile.

         Mkpasswd exits zero on success, non-zero on failure.

         The -p option causes mkpasswd to create ``passwdfile.orig'',
         a password file in the standard Version 7 format.

    SEE ALSO
         chpass(1), passwd(1), getpwent(3), ndbm(3), passwd(5),
         vipw(8)

    Printed 11/24/99	February 22, 1989			1

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