BNPASS(1)

💖 BNPASS(1) 💖

okay bestie, you found the BNETD User's Manual page for bnpass and honestly? it's a little guy with a big job. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bnpass — the bnetd password utility, aka your lil glow-up machine for turning plain passwords into hashed ones 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bnpass [options] [--] [cleartextpassword]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so bnpass is a small utility that prints out the ASCII hashed version of a clear text password, in the exact same format that bnetd account files use. no cap. 🎀

it's giving extremely useful if you're writing a script to generate accounts, or if you need to reset a password in the bnetd user database. main character energy fr fr.

and here's the tea: if you don't pass cleartextpassword, it's gonna prompt you to type it into the standard input instead. so either way, you're covered 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help, --usage — prints the usage info and dips. that's it, that's the whole thing ✨
• -v, --version — prints its version number and exits. little flex, we love to see it 💅
• -- — this one signals the end of options. anything after it gets treated as a password, even if it starts with a -. yes, even then. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

🌈 NOTES 🌈

the current version ships with the bnetd distribution, and you can find it right here:

http://www.bnetd.org/

go look, bestie, it's right there ⭐

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

bnetd(1), bnchat(1), bnftp(1)

(the whole squad, fr fr 🫶)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ross Combs (ross@bnetd.org) — thank you for your service, king 👑

heads up babes: bnpass outputs the hashed password in the same ASCII format the bnetd account files use, so don't go mixing formats or you'll be sad 😭

and that's the whole page! this is the bnetd distribution, dated 09 April, 1999 — old but still eating, periodt 💖✨