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17. 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 section 15. Invoking the grub shell). Passwords encrypted by this program can be used with the command password (see section 13.2.9 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.