How to make 'mkpasswd' compatible password hash with forge?

[xied75]

Dear all,

We want to make the same password hash as what mkpasswd can do in Linux, which underneath is calling crypt(3).

# On Debian/Ubuntu (via the package "whois")
mkpasswd --method=SHA-512 --rounds=4096

http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt

Thanks in advance for any helps!

[dlongley]

If you need a pure JS implementation, this may do what you need: https://github.com/mvo5/sha512crypt-node

If you can use a node module w/a compiled binary: https://github.com/sendanor/node-crypt3

We could add support for this to forge at some point in the future, we just don't have the time to do so at the moment. However, we would accept a PR that implements this function in forge.

[xied75]

@dlongley indeed the first repo works, looks should be easy to port. I'll see if I can get free time before you can. :)