Manual talk:$wgPasswordSalt
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Xiong in topic Creating the Hash
Creating the Hash
editI rm all the sample code because it's just plain wrong. Blatantly, it does not generate the stuff demanded at Manual:User_table#user_password.
I have succeeded in doing what's required but I'm very weak in PHP and I don't cotton to cramming that much tricky stuff into a SQL query. So I did it in Perl. This is for $wgPasswordSalt=true (default).
use Digest::MD5 'md5_hex';
my $salt = sprintf "%08x", ( int( rand() * 2**31 ) );
my $hashed = md5_hex( $password );
$hashed = md5_hex( $salt . q{-} . $hashed );
$hashed = q{:B:} . $salt . q(:) . $hashed ;