Generate Password Hash using OpenSSL

OpenSSL can be used to generate SSL certificates, encrypt and decrypt data, generate hashes or perform other operations related with cryptography. This tutorial shows how to generate a password hash using OpenSSL.

The openssl passwd command can be used for generating password hashes. For example, to generate password hash using MD5 based BSD password algorithm, use the following command:

openssl passwd -1 yourpass

Output example:

$1$8cJnlmP7$/5kEkAiHaleP9AgddPlh50

By default, random salt is used, but it can be provided with -salt option:

openssl passwd -salt yoursalt -1 yourpass

Output:

$1$yoursalt$LMoRi46cR1zxgcXo9KtfV1

Other password hashing algorithms supported as well.

Note: the -crypt option was removed in OpenSSL 3.0.