.BR sprintf (3)
format and may include one (and only one) %s conversion.
This conversion will be substituted with a string random
-characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./]. For example, "%.2s"
-provides a two character salt and "$1$%.8s" tells some
+characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./]. For example, '%.2s'
+provides a two character salt and '$1$%.8s' tells some
versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5 algorithm and provides
-8 random characters of salt. The default is "%s", which
+8 random characters of salt. The default is '%s', which
provides 31 characters of salt.
.SH LIMITATIONS
The practice storing hashed passwords in userPassword violates