On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:35, Brian Conway wrote: > As part of a larger build script, I'm pre-populating passwords with > usermod. When upgrading to 5.6, I ran into the error below: > > 5.5-stable: > > # encrypt -b 8 > onetwothree > $2a$08$vCs1eIrJAPAvWUGLR7wKJucQdCmalmQhU/9StF8QJDYz.E126wHeG > > # usermod -p > '$2a$08$vCs1eIrJAPAvWUGLR7wKJucQdCmalmQhU/9StF8QJDYz.E126wHeG' root > > # > > 5.6-stable: > > # encrypt -b 9 > onetwothree > $2b$09$bacE5YNJiTzsuE8m.WJdUOHJO9U/lJq.tlSfwC/FKIL5EhqYpUsgC > > # usermod -p > '$2b$09$bacE5YNJiTzsuE8m.WJdUOHJO9U/lJq.tlSfwC/FKIL5EhqYpUsgC' root > usermod: Invalid password: > `$2b$09$bacE5YNJiTzsuE8m.WJdUOHJO9U/lJq.tlSfwC/FKIL5EhqYpUsgC'
our (my) mistake. Note that the 5.6 password starts with $2b$. Unfortunately, usermod wasn't taught to recognize such passwords until after 5.6.
