[PLUG-TALK] captcha for geeks

Keith Lofstrom keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Thu Feb 13 21:03:42 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:03:05AM -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> >What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?
> >
> >This is needed for wiki access registration on a site I frequent.
> 
> I don't support the widget would accept the output on my Mac:
> 
>   -bash: sha256sum: command not found

I'm not a Mac victim, but doesn't shashum -a 256 do the same thing
as linux sha256sum, even on the Creature that Ate Cupertino?

Of course, on a Mac you may need to do:

echo "07Linux" |shasum -a 256|sed 's/\W//g' because $(uname)
produces a different result ...

Keith

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