[issue22432] function crypt not working on OSX

Geoffrey Spear report at bugs.python.org
Wed Sep 17 16:41:01 CEST 2014


Geoffrey Spear added the comment:

This is actually the expected behavior of crypt(3) on OS X. It doesn't support the $id$ modular format, and if the salt does not begin with an underscore only the first 2 bytes are used (presumably in your "bug #2" you're changing parts of the salt beyond the first 2 bytes.)

Python's behavior differing based on the underlying C library on the system is documented; this is neither a bug in Python or in OS X crypt (although it could be argued that OS X crypt is kind of useless and insecure...)

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