ansible/ansible — pull request #7869 by scottbrown (2014-06-20 16:23:46+00:00)
Title: DOCFIX add another Unix passwd creation solution using OpenSSL

... most people have it installed by default.

It's a simple fix but some people do not want to yak-shave getting pip installed, and mkpasswd doesn't exist in all operating systems. OpenSSL is typically there by default.