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.Dd October 20, 2021 .Dt PWHASH 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pwhash .Nd hashes passwords from the command line or standard input .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm pwhash .Op Fl km .Op Fl A Ar variant[,params] .Op Fl b Ar rounds .Op Fl S Ar rounds .Op Fl s Ar salt .Op Fl p | Ar string .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm prints the encrypted form of .Ar string to the standard output. This is mostly useful for encrypting passwords from within scripts.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width Ds t Fl b Ar rounds Encrypt the string using Blowfish hashing with the specified .Ar rounds . t Fl k Run in .Xr makekey 8 compatible mode. A single combined key (eight chars) and salt (two chars) with no intermediate space are read from standard input and the DES encrypted result is written to standard output without a terminating newline. t Fl m Hash the string using MD5. t Fl p Prompt for a single string with echo turned off. t Fl S Ar rounds Encrypt the salt with HMAC-SHA1 using the password as key and the specified .Ar rounds as a hint for the number of iterations. t Fl A Ar variant[,params] Encrypt the specified string using Argon2 hashing parameterized using variant .Ar variant , where .Ar variant is one of the following: argon2id, argon2i, argon2d. Variant .Ar argon2id is recommended. Following the required .Ar variant name, three optional comma-delimited parameters may be provided, t=n Specify the number of iterations to n. m=n Specify the memory usage in KB to n. p=n Specify the number of threads to n. This is currently ignored. If unspecified, default parameters are calculated based on system performance and available resources. t Fl s Ar salt Encrypt the string using DES, with the specified .Ar salt . .El
p If no .Ar string is specified, .Nm reads one string per line from standard input, encrypting each one with the chosen algorithm from above. In the event that no specific algorithm is given as a command line option, the algorithm specified in the default class in
a /etc/passwd.conf will be used.
p For MD5, Blowfish, and Argon2 a new random salt is automatically generated for each password.
p Specifying the .Ar string on the command line should be discouraged; using the standard input is more secure. .Sh EXAMPLES The following specifies the argon2id variant, using 1 thread and 4096KB of memory pwhash -A argon2id,p=1,m=4096 -p .Sh FILES l -tag -width /etc/passwd.conf -compact t Pa /etc/passwd.conf .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr crypt 3 , .Xr passwd.conf 5