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http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=1165
Since Schwern hasn't been able to convince anyone that this should be
fixed in the interpreter, I'm going to supply his suggested
documentation patch.
Casey West
--
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against
which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily
in high schools."
-- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary
rocket work.
--- perl-current.orig/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 00:58:19 2003
+++ perl-current/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 13:46:26 2003
@@ -870,7 +870,10 @@
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 systems crypt library, 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:
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