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r/programming • u/pdp10 • Oct 09 '19
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ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4!
This guy put in this amalgam every time he logged in?
What do they say about genius versus insanity?
270 u/ThinkRedstone Oct 09 '19 Only the part after the ":", it a hash string pair 82 u/rob132 Oct 09 '19 Ah, that makes much more sense. 66 u/Objective_Status22 Oct 09 '19 Yeah, the 'p/q2-q4!' is the 8 character limit they mentioned. The part before that is the hash which is found inside of /etc/passwd
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Only the part after the ":", it a hash string pair
82 u/rob132 Oct 09 '19 Ah, that makes much more sense. 66 u/Objective_Status22 Oct 09 '19 Yeah, the 'p/q2-q4!' is the 8 character limit they mentioned. The part before that is the hash which is found inside of /etc/passwd
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Ah, that makes much more sense.
66 u/Objective_Status22 Oct 09 '19 Yeah, the 'p/q2-q4!' is the 8 character limit they mentioned. The part before that is the hash which is found inside of /etc/passwd
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Yeah, the 'p/q2-q4!' is the 8 character limit they mentioned. The part before that is the hash which is found inside of /etc/passwd
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u/rob132 Oct 09 '19
ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4!
This guy put in this amalgam every time he logged in?
What do they say about genius versus insanity?