Bug#518018: installation-guide: Appendix B: mkpasswd example wrong
Subject: installation-guide: Appendix B: mkpasswd call wrong
Package: installation-guide
Version: 20081208
Severity: normal
Hi,
the mkpasswd example call in the examples for passwd/root-password-crypted says
echo "r00tme" | mkpasswd -s -m md5
but that didn't work for me. (I can't log in with r00tme - OF course the
password is something else here :) )
What is working is the following:
echo -n "r00tme" | mkpasswd -s -m md5
because echo then omits the \n which would end up into the hash otherwise...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Grüße/Regards,
René
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