[ILUG] crypt disapeared ?

[Thomas Pedoussaut]

It's been years since I used crypt for my passwords.

Now I've to build some tools to manipulate another shadow-like database
for dovecot, and I can't find how to encrypt my passwords. The result
looks like $1$UYiAOVKB$OPYATv8K8HliDjWVLx1eQ0
For the moment the crypt function of php does the job, but I'd like to
find something more command-line oriented as 'passwd' doesn't support
alternatives shadow-file.

Any help appreciated as Mr Google is a bit useless.

-- 
Thomas