maxpasswd options in 2.5

Overview

Option

Description

--decrypt (-d)

Decrypt an encrypted password instead.

--help (-h)

Display this help.

--interactive (-i)

If maxpasswd is reading from a pipe, it will read a line and use that as the password. If maxpasswd is connected to a terminal console, it will prompt for the password. If '-i' is specified, a single argument is assumed to be the path and two arguments is treated like an error.