Comments on: How-To: Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend — page 2 http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-apache2-authentication-using-mysql-backend-page-2/ Debian/Ubuntu Tips and Tricks Fri, 24 May 2013 00:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: chantra http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-apache2-authentication-using-mysql-backend-page-2/#comment-22758 chantra Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:13:16 +0000 http://www.debuntu.org/?p=669#comment-22758 Post updated, tks

]]> By: Marwan Tanager http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-apache2-authentication-using-mysql-backend-page-2/#comment-21741 Marwan Tanager Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:12:59 +0000 http://www.debuntu.org/?p=669#comment-21741 Good point. Forgetting -n actually costed me a lot of time trying to find out what’s wrong. Thanks

]]> By: Got http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-apache2-authentication-using-mysql-backend-page-2/#comment-4254 Got Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:35:33 +0000 http://www.debuntu.org/?p=669#comment-4254 Just a small issue, echo “password” give a linebreak which make the sha1sum wrong.

To have the good sha1sum, you need to add -n command to echo

echo -n ‘password’ |sha1sum
5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 -

thus, the SHA1 encrypted version of password password is 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 and not c8fed00eb2e87f1cee8e90ebbe870c190ac3848c!

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