How do i create and encrypted password with openssl?

amurleopard

Man page for openssl: http://bit.ly/2zjZAuo

Sometime you need to generate a password for use with configuration management tools like ansible, chef, etc. You set variable as secure encrypted variable.

Note: This is md5 which is not secure as sha256, sha512. See other articles on this.
http://bit.ly/2x6dxeN

With openssl you can generate a password like this:

 openssl passwd -1
Password:
Verifying - Password:
$1$c5TFWEbF$i4tWjzviWrJKqICO/SWk50

You would store this $1$c5TFWEbF$i4tWjzviWrJKqICO/SWk50 in your variable.