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| author | Casey West <casey@geeknest.com> | 2003-05-09 11:25:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-05-09 19:33:25 +0000 |
| commit | d3989d752d99f59d5b497f1becb9bfd9c9469b96 (patch) | |
| tree | 464a41d85483fdd6ea2f8fb106e3da09a755e56e /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 1b7a0411f8b7cab25944dd0429da7dbe6061945b (diff) | |
| download | perl-d3989d752d99f59d5b497f1becb9bfd9c9469b96.tar.gz | |
Re: [DOC PATCH] [perl #1165] crypt accepts any character as salt
Message-ID: <20030509192559.GS49820@geeknest.com>
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index d62f61a0f1..b7c1aafba2 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -870,7 +870,10 @@ different strings. When choosing a new salt create a random two character string whose characters come from the set C<[./0-9A-Za-z]> (like C<join '', ('.', -'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>). +'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>). This set of +characters is just a recommendation; the characters allowed in +the salt depend solely on your system's crypt library, and Perl can't +restrict what salts C<crypt()> accepts. Here's an example that makes sure that whoever runs this program knows their own password: |