tag 518018 pending thanks On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > What is working is the following: > > echo -n "r00tme" | mkpasswd -s -m md5 > > because echo then omits the \n which would end up into the hash > otherwise... Thanks for reporting René. I've used 'printf' instead of 'echo -n' for better portability.