I was following the tutorial the digital had. I am not a mysql expert so
you could be right.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2017-03-05 21:27, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
>
>> UPDATE users SET
>> password=ENCRYPT(%p,concat(_utf8'$1$',right(md5(rand()),8),_utf8'$'))
>> WHERE username=%u LIMIT 1
>>
>> This is using md5 for the hashing where as I am using SHA
>>
>
> To expand on this, the MySQL encrypt() function calls the system's crypt()
> function, which can be made to use a number of different hashes. A salt
> starting with $1$ is md5, $6$ is SHA512.
>
> INSERT INTO `servermail`.`virtual_users`
>> (`id`, `domain_id`, `password` , `email`)
>> VALUES
>> ('1', '1', ENCRYPT('firstpassword', CONCAT('$6$',
>> SUBSTRING(SHA(RAND()), -16))), 'email1@example.com'),
>> I want to format this query correctly.
>>
>
> I think this isn't quite right, because the salt has to end with a $
> according to the man page for crypt.  I think you want CONCAT('$6$',
> SUBSTRING(SHA(RAND()), -16),'$')) but I could be wrong.
>
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