Re: Hyphen-minus passwd

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Lee (12024-03-07):
> $ openssl passwd -6 -salt username \\-password
> $6$username$7 ..etc..

Wrong answer: this gives the encrypted string for “\-password”, not for
“-password”.

~ $ openssl passwd -6 -salt username \\-password
$6$username$7Vzj6uFI0bs770qb.tIdqyMDbBWCoF93TKbZ7GSmU0ktiCcMu5rxgjpumDUram2ulYhVlWycvUMf1jGKbu8sC1
~ $ perl -e 'print crypt("-password", "\$6\$username\$"), "\n"'
$6$username$FCvGwi21H/uVp89BtnZHWQsL.vZKajZ3lRbfB7Jnjr2C.5qBgx7TB3Ul3PbcyCIArts/C2lfQgYOLp418oH7C0
~ $ perl -e 'print crypt("\\-password", "\$6\$username\$"), "\n"'
$6$username$7Vzj6uFI0bs770qb.tIdqyMDbBWCoF93TKbZ7GSmU0ktiCcMu5rxgjpumDUram2ulYhVlWycvUMf1jGKbu8sC1

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  Nicolas George