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                     20: .TH MKPASSWD 8 "June 24, 1990"
                     21: .UC 6
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: mkpasswd \- generate hashed password table
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B mkpasswd
                     26: [
                     27: .B \-p
                     28: ] passwdfile
                     29: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     30: .I Mkpasswd
                     31: is used to generated the hashed password database used by the
                     32: password library routines (see
                     33: .IR getpwent (3)).
                     34: .PP
                     35: The file
                     36: .I passwdfile
                     37: must be in password file format (see
                     38: .IR passwd (5)).
                     39: .I Mkpasswd
                     40: generates database files named ``passwdfile.pag'' and
                     41: ``passwdfile.dir'' (see
                     42: .IR ndbm (3)).
                     43: Data subsequently taken from the database files differ from
                     44: .I passwdfile
                     45: in one respect.
                     46: Rather than storing the encrypted password in the database,
                     47: .I mkpasswd
                     48: stores the offset of the encrypted password in
                     49: .IR passwdfile .
                     50: .PP
                     51: .I Mkpasswd
                     52: exits zero on success, non-zero on failure.
                     53: .PP
                     54: The
                     55: .I \-p
                     56: option causes
                     57: .I mkpasswd
                     58: to create ``passwdfile.orig'', a password file in the
                     59: standard Version 7 format.
                     60: .SH SEE ALSO
                     61: chpass(1), passwd(1), getpwent(3), ndbm(3), passwd(5), vipw(8)

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