SMBENCRYPT(1)

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✨ SMBENCRYPT ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing smbencrypt today — it's a General Commands Manual page (section 1, the cool commands section 💅), and honestly? it's giving "one job, does it well." no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

smbencrypt — produce LM & NT password hashes from cleartext passwords

like... it takes your plain little passwords and spits out the LM-Password and NT-Password hashes. that's the whole vibe. she's focused. she's not doing side quests. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

smbencrypt password [password ...]

you just hand her one or more passwords on the command line, that's it. you can pass as many as you want, and each one gets its own lil glow-up into hashes ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the way this works: smbencrypt takes each cleartext password you pass on the command line, and for every single one of them it emits the LM-Password and NT-Password hashes for that password. every password in, two hashes out. it's giving assembly line but make it iconic 🏭💅

like, you say the password, she says the hashes. no extra steps, no confessions, no questions asked. main character energy fr fr.

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

watch this, it literally eats:

$ smbencrypt foo bar
LM Hash                            NT Hash
--------------------------------   --------------------------------
5BFAFBEBFB6A0942AAD3B435B51404EE   AC8E657F83DF82BEEA5D43BDAF7800CC
A6428F2551EDEE1BAAD3B435B51404EE   86C156FC198B358CCCF6278D8BD49B6A

so foo and bar walked in, and four hashes walked out 😭💀 not me getting emotional over a hash table. the left column is the LM Hash, the right column is the NT Hash, and yes, both rows are lined up all cute and tidy under their lil headers. slay.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • radiusd(8) — yeah, the RADIUS daemon, that's the one. go read that one too if you're feeling adventurous, bestie 🫶

💜 AUTHORS 💜

bestie. bestie. listen. this section is literally empty in the original page. no names, no credits, no shoutouts, nothing. the author said "I'm mysterious ✨" and dipped. so we're just gonna leave it exactly as we found it: a heading and silence 🙈

real talk though: if you're reading this, whoever wrote it, you ate and left no crumbs and also no name. iconic behavior honestly.

so that's the whole page, start to finish, no crumbs left behind 🍓 the header at the top says SMBENCRYPT(1) and the footer at the very bottom says SMBENCRYPT(1) too — a little matching set, a little coordinated outfit, we love to see it 💅✨ go hash something, bestie, and stay hydrated 🦋💖

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