pwkickstart - Man Page

Generates kickstart-compatible syntax by default.

      $ pwkickstart
      Password:

      # md5
      rootpw --iscrypted $1$SI$D964QyK1.Iz/
      # sha256
      rootpw --iscrypted $5$Ll/Q6$SEYqHGso3maNbtBc1wjyiyr2
      # sha512
      rootpw --iscrypted $6$MN7wS$1QE3FmSBrN71tXV8y.Blif1avdhTYt/

Utility pwkickstart generates kickstart passwords from password input and prints them to standard output in three different formats: md5, sha256 and sha512.

Previously grub-crypt provided the same, but it is not longer available in some Linux distributions.

The output in section was shortened to fit on screen in the SYNOPOSIS example above.

The utility accepts exactly one parameter - the password. Entries are sorted from oldest to newest.

  $ pwkickstart mypass 
  $1$6FrN7YsS$2o3lfiD9T4LlUfKBgCe0X1
  $5$S2Zab0elQkL7fN.ikw.jmZeb7qtEK7DJESPDv9
  $6$slYmPDc8PtwOPmnx$9u3X3NE73XxuU7.5YlJAm/QMEahzx

To get the "strongest" possible hash:

  $ pwkickstart mypass | tail -n1
  $6$slYmPDc8PtwOPmnx$9u3X3NE73XxuU7.5YlJAm/QMEahzx

Grep exactly what's needed:

  $ pwkickstart mypass | grep '$6$'
  $6$slYmPDc8PtwOPmnx$9u3X3NE73XxuU7.5YlJAm/QMEahzx

MIT License

openssl(1)

Lukas Zapletal <lzap+spam@redhat.com>