On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 08:38:02AM +1100, Jon Higgs wrote: > On 27/03/25 07:05, Sebastien Marie wrote: > > does using an empty password work ? > > > > $ encrypt '' > > $2b$09$s50wc1NMzJnZQGCW171wyePdahWA3TOq632BI44d0skN.Mt.yYRLm > > Thanks, it does! I'll use that for now but I think that Ingo's proposal > is real solution. I'm looking forward to that coming to fruition.
It's a neat hack. But it obfuscates the fact that an empty password is being used if someone glances over master.passwd to check on such things.
