# Install mkpasswd

Library and command-line tool to generate passwords. Version 0.3.0 via Cargo; verified 2020-04-18.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cargo:mkpasswd
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- Cargo (100%):

```sh
cargo install mkpasswd
```

  Evidence: local crates.io package metadata

## Package Facts

- **Package key:** cargo:mkpasswd
- **Package manager:** Cargo
- **Package manager URL:** <https://crates.io/crates/mkpasswd>
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Source summary:** Library and command-line tool to generate passwords
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Draphar/mkpasswd/>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://docs.rs/mkpasswd/>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://static.crates.io/crates/mkpasswd/mkpasswd-0.3.0.crate>
- **Published:** 2020-04-18 14:05:59.217521+00
- **Last updated:** 2020-04-18 14:05:59.217521+00
- **Generated:** 2026-06-18T16:49:02+00:00

## Executables

- mkpasswd (binary): Declared by crates.io version metadata.

## Install Behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-06-18
- Package-manager version: 0.3.0

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mkpasswd. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** crates.io database dump
- **Crate ID:** 124,427
- **Crate Size:** 7,094
- **Edition:** 2018
- **Has Lib:** yes
- **Num Versions:** 3
- **Recent Download Window Days:** 90
- **Version ID:** 232,528

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - mkpasswd: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: mkpasswd from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- apk - mkpasswd - 5.6.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mkpasswd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | mkpasswd with configurable number of rounds | https://github.com/rfc1036/whois
- dnf - mkpasswd - 5.6.6-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mkpasswd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Encrypt a password with crypt(3) function using a salt | https://www.linux.it/~md/software/


## Sources

- crates.io package index
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph