Create password hashes for magento using salt from stdin or terminal requires pwgen

magento_adminpassword.sh

#!/bin/sh

# magento_adminpassword.sh
#
# reads an password from stdin or terminal and creates hash with salt for magento

# USAGE
# echo hai | ./adminpassword.sh
# or
# ./adminpassword.sh

# depends on pwgen for creation of salt


read -p 'password: ' PASS; SALT=$(pwgen -s 2 1); echo $(echo -n "$SALT$PASS"| md5sum | cut -d \  -f 1):"$SALT"

# check with
# echo -n i8hai| md5sum
# where i8 is the salt given and hai the password