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mkpasswd

Description

Useful for generating passwords for /etc/shadow and for use in Ansible playbooks.

Install

Install mkpasswd which is included in the whois package:
```
sudo apt install whois
```

Use

Encrypt a string as a SHA-512 password:
```
mkpasswd --method=sha-512
```
Encrypt a string as a yescrypt password:
```
mkpasswd --method=yescrypt
```

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