Creates a Linux /etc/shadow compatible salted hash of a string
From http://serverfault.com/questions/330069/how-to-create-an-sha-512-hashed-password-for-shadow:
Here's a one liner:
python -c 'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("test", "$6$random_salt")' 6 is the type of hash for SHA-512
1 -> MD5 2a -> Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some Linux distributions) 5 -> SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7) 6 -> SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7) I'd recommend you look up what salts are and such and as per smallclamgers comment the difference between encryption and hashing.
Update: The string produced is suitable for shadow and kickstart scripts.
answered Nov 11 '11 at 11:29 davey