IRCD-MKPASSWD(8)

🎀 NAME 🎀

ircd-mkpasswd — bestie, this is the girl who makes password hashes for ircd ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ircd-mkpasswd [-m|-d] [-l saltlength] [-s salt] [-p plaintext]

Okay so here's the whole vibe, flag by flag:

• -m — makes you an MD5 password 💅
• -d — makes you a DES password 🦋
• -l — tell it a length for a random MD5 salt, so the salt can be however long you want it
• -s — hand it a salt yourself: 2 alphanumeric characters for DES, up to 16 for MD5 🌸
• -p — drop in the plaintext password you wanna use 🙈

Like, for example (and yes this is literally the example, no cap):

ircd-mkpasswd -m -s 3dr -p test

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ircd-mkpasswd generates SALT encrypted passwords for use in ircd.conf. That's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? She ate. 👑

Heads up bestie: the passwords it spits out are salted and encrypted, and they're meant to live in ircd.conf — so keep them safe, mkay? 💜

So yeah, that's the whole page 🫶 go forth and hash, main character 🌈

This one's from the System Manager's Manual — page dated May 2002, filed under IRCD-MKPASSWD(8) 💖 mwah, bye ✨