String#crypt - Beware: default system crypt functionality silently ignores characters beyond the 8th #ruby

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String#crypt - Beware: default system crypt functionality silently ignores characters beyond the 8th #ruby

From the man page: If salt is a character string starting with the characters “$id$” followed by a string terminated by “$”: $id$salt$encrypted then instead of using the DES machine, id identifies the encryption method used and this then determines how the rest of the password string is interpreted.

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