How do i manually generate a hash password in redhat?

giraffelife

man openssl: http://lightnetics.nodebb.com/post/880

You can use the openssl command.

$ openssl passwd --help
Usage: passwd [options] [passwords]
where options are
-crypt             standard Unix password algorithm (default)
-1                 MD5-based password algorithm
-apr1              MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant
-salt string       use provided salt
-in file           read passwords from file
-stdin             read passwords from stdin
-noverify          never verify when reading password from terminal
-quiet             no warnings
-table             format output as table
-reverse           switch table columns

$ openssl passwd -1 -salt sop thisismypassword
$1$sop$CNr1gHM6GCxM8ekYJB/U50