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Re: [DOC PATCH] [perl #1165] crypt accepts any character as salt

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From:
david nicol
Date:
May 11, 2003 22:03
Subject:
Re: [DOC PATCH] [perl #1165] crypt accepts any character as salt
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1052715770.2754.1.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com

The comment belongs within the parentheses.


-+'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>).  This set of
++'/', 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.
++restrict what salts C<crypt()> accepts.)



On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:56, Casey West wrote:
> 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
-- 
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