Generating a salted hash compatible with shadow(5) is a rather simple task.

If you haven't read the shadow(5) man page yet, I highly recommend it:

	man 5 shadow

There are many ways in which you can generate a salted hash.

0.) Debian can do this with the mkpasswd utility (it's in Arch's AUR as debian-whois-mkpasswd):

	mkpasswd --method=sha-512 --salt=aBcDeFgHiJ PASSWORD

(If a salt is not provided, one will be automatically generated. That is is the suggested method.)

1.) perl (PoC script welcome):

	perl -e 'print crypt("PASSWORD","\$6\$aBcDeFgHiJ\$") . "\n"'

2.) python (extras/bin/hashgen.py):

	python -c "import crypt, getpass, pwd; print crypt.crypt('PASSWORD','\$6\$aBcDeFgHiJ\$')"

3.) php (extras/bin/hashgen.php) (UNTESTED):

	php -r "\$password = 'PASSWORD'; \$saltRaw = 'aBcDeFgHiJ'; \$salt = base64_encode(\$saltRaw); \$result = crypt(\$password,'\$6' . '\$' . \$salt .'\$'); print \$result . \"\n\";"

4.) even grub-crypt (if using legacy grub):

      /sbin/grub-crypt --sha-512

The end-product should look something like this:

	$6$aBcDeFgHiJ$Yh342vFH7MOjPNu9InFymD1Dd42i5cFsr1cTWdpKGNIkbRGR/ZKQDRPJ1ZeeGb7y894Tfh3iWZIJKu3phlsqQ1

If it doesn't, you did something incorrectly.
Note that different hashes/the PoC scripts will result in a different string, but it should be the same length.