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Re: using {CRYPT} for rootpw, using SHA512?



On Fri 15 Aug 2014 09:40:39 Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:49:03PM +0100, Miroslaw Baran wrote:
> > How do you encode your random salt?
> 
> In the example I gave, my salt was the actual string 'random_salt',
> right from the example in the URL.  Comments on the thread to that
> example make it clear you should actually use a random salt, and
> I've found pleny of examples that purport to generate one.  By eye,
> 'random_salt' matches the regex you suggest.

Ah: underscore. Underscore doesn't, I'm afraid. [Yep; tested in a sandbox.]

-- m.