I was wondering why even for the same username and the same password, htpasswd outputs a new hash everytime? I tried finding an answer to this question, but couldn’t.
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I was wondering why even for the same username and the same password, htpasswd outputs a new hash everytime? I tried finding an answer to this question, but couldn’t.
The passwords generated by “htpasswd” use a random salt, to make it harder to guess. It also means that pre-crypted dictionaries for attacks have to be much larger since they have to crypt every possible password with every possible salt.
htpasswd uses crypt(3) behind the scenes.