GRUB-MD5-CRYPT(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

grub-md5-crypt — bestie, this one encrypts a password in MD5 format 💅

So you found yourself in the System Administration Utilities corner of section 8, and the manual you're reading is literally just grub-md5-crypt. No cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

grub-md5-crypt [OPTION]

That's the whole vibe. One optional thing in brackets, that's it 🎀

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Ok so what does it actually do? It encrypts a password in MD5 format. That's the entire plot 🫶 short, sweet, iconic.

And here are the options it accepts, all three of them, no skipping any:

• -h, --help — prints this message and then exits. Like, it tells you about itself and dips 👋
• -v, --version — prints the version information and exits. Version reveal, then bye 🦋
• --grub-shell=FILE — uses FILE as the grub shell. You point at the file, it uses it, periodt.

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Not me gatekeeping the address — report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. They actually want to hear it, fr fr 💌

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

The full documentation for grub-md5-crypt is maintained as a Texinfo manual — yes, a whole separate manual, the extended director's cut 👑

If the info and grub-md5-crypt programs are properly installed at your site, this command:

info grub-md5-crypt

should give you access to the complete manual 🌈

Heads up though: you may need to install the grub-legacy-doc package. So if info acts brand new and gives you nothing, that's why 🙈

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And that's the whole page, bestie — this grub-md5-crypt manual comes from GNU GRUB, dated January 2022, and it lives in section 8 as GRUB-MD5-CRYPT(8). Go encrypt something 💜