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Invoking grub-md5-crypt

The program grub-md5-crypt encrypts a password in MD5 format. This is just a frontend of the grub shell (see Invoking the grub shell). Passwords encrypted by this program can be used with the command password (see password).

grub-md5-crypt accepts the following options:

--help
Print a summary of the command-line options and exit.
--version
Print the version information and exit.
--grub-shell=file
Use file as the grub shell.