[rt-users] Password Encryption Used By RT

[Chr. von Stuckrad]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:47:11PM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> > No, crypt() uses more than one algorithm on most systems that support
> > MD5 passwords, and figures out which to use by the hash. 
> 
> Gnar. By the salt, of course.
> 
>   $ perl -le 'print crypt("foo",q($1$abcdefgh))'
>   $1$abcdefgh$XxzGe9Muun7wTYbZO4sdr0

This seems to be system-dependent!

My perl(s) on LINUX and Solaris *both* give me:

$ perl -le 'print crypt("foo",q($1$abcdefgh))'
$1BYKQTeiLcrU

Stucki

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