[rt-users] RT3 root account and password

[Robert Spier]

At Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:44:26 -0500,
Mike Frazer wrote:
> If I recall properly, RT3 uses a base-64 digest of an MD5 hash.  Simply
> doing an MD5 could potentially cause issues with the database -- perhaps
> with different character sets, or what-have-you -- because it could possibly
> create unstorable characters.

For backwards compatibility, RT3 will also accept crypted passwords.

mysql> select ENCRYPT("password","SA");

should generate it.

(SA is the salt.)

-R