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  <li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li>
  <li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
  <li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
  <li><a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
  <li><a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li>
  <li><a href="#HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
  <li><a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a></li>
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<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1>

<p>openssl-passwd - compute password hashes</p>

<h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1>

<p><b>openssl passwd</b> [<b>-help</b>] [<b>-1</b>] [<b>-apr1</b>] [<b>-aixmd5</b>] [<b>-5</b>] [<b>-6</b>] [<b>-salt</b> <i>string</i>] [<b>-in</b> <i>file</i>] [<b>-stdin</b>] [<b>-noverify</b>] [<b>-quiet</b>] [<b>-table</b>] [<b>-reverse</b>] [<b>-rand</b> <i>files</i>] [<b>-writerand</b> <i>file</i>] [<b>-provider</b> <i>name</i>] [<b>-provider-path</b> <i>path</i>] [<b>-provparam</b> <i>[name:]key=value</i>] [<b>-propquery</b> <i>propq</i>] [<i>password</i>]</p>

<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1>

<p>This command computes the hash of a password typed at run-time or the hash of each password in a list. The password list is taken from the named file for option <b>-in</b>, from stdin for option <b>-stdin</b>, or from the command line, or from the terminal otherwise.</p>

<h1 id="OPTIONS">OPTIONS</h1>

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<dt id="help"><b>-help</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Print out a usage message.</p>

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<dt id="pod-1"><b>-1</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Use the MD5 based BSD password algorithm <b>1</b> (default).</p>

</dd>
<dt id="apr1"><b>-apr1</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Use the <b>apr1</b> algorithm (Apache variant of the BSD algorithm).</p>

</dd>
<dt id="aixmd5"><b>-aixmd5</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Use the <b>AIX MD5</b> algorithm (AIX variant of the BSD algorithm).</p>

</dd>
<dt id="pod-5"><b>-5</b></dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="pod-6"><b>-6</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Use the <b>SHA256</b> / <b>SHA512</b> based algorithms defined by Ulrich Drepper. See <a href="https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt">https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt</a>.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="salt-string"><b>-salt</b> <i>string</i></dt>
<dd>

<p>Use the specified salt. When reading a password from the terminal, this implies <b>-noverify</b>.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="in-file"><b>-in</b> <i>file</i></dt>
<dd>

<p>Read passwords from <i>file</i>.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="stdin"><b>-stdin</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Read passwords from <b>stdin</b>.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="noverify"><b>-noverify</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Don&#39;t verify when reading a password from the terminal.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="quiet"><b>-quiet</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Don&#39;t output warnings when passwords given at the command line are truncated.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="table"><b>-table</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>In the output list, prepend the cleartext password and a TAB character to each password hash.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="reverse"><b>-reverse</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>When the <b>-table</b> option is used, reverse the order of cleartext and hash.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="rand-files--writerand-file"><b>-rand</b> <i>files</i>, <b>-writerand</b> <i>file</i></dt>
<dd>

<p>See <a href="../man1/openssl.html">&quot;Random State Options&quot; in openssl(1)</a> for details.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="provider-name"><b>-provider</b> <i>name</i></dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="provider-path-path"><b>-provider-path</b> <i>path</i></dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="provparam-name:-key-value"><b>-provparam</b> <i>[name:]key=value</i></dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="propquery-propq"><b>-propquery</b> <i>propq</i></dt>
<dd>

<p>See <a href="../man1/openssl.html">&quot;Provider Options&quot; in openssl(1)</a>, <a href="../man7/provider.html">provider(7)</a>, and <a href="../man7/property.html">property(7)</a>.</p>

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<h1 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h1>

<pre><code>% openssl passwd -1 -salt xxxxxxxx password
$1$xxxxxxxx$UYCIxa628.9qXjpQCjM4a.

% openssl passwd -apr1 -salt xxxxxxxx password
$apr1$xxxxxxxx$dxHfLAsjHkDRmG83UXe8K0

% openssl passwd -aixmd5 -salt xxxxxxxx password
xxxxxxxx$8Oaipk/GPKhC64w/YVeFD/</code></pre>

<h1 id="HISTORY">HISTORY</h1>

<p>The <b>-crypt</b> option was removed in OpenSSL 3.0.</p>

<h1 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h1>

<p>Copyright 2000-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.</p>

<p>Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the &quot;License&quot;). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <a href="https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html">https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html</a>.</p>


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