Encrypt a password the same way mysql does

Question

I've created a user ... but forgotten the password

mysql> create user 'blayo'@'%' identified by 'right';

Which Linux command line tool can encrypt the password the same way mysql 5.5 does ?

mysql> select Password,User from mysql.user
------------------------------------------+-------+
*920018161824B14A1067A69626595E68CB8284CB | blayo |

...to be sure I use the right one

$ tool right
*920018161824B14A1067A69626595E68CB8284CB

Answer 1

Well, the trivial (perhaps cheating) way would be to run:

mysql -NBe "select password('right')"

This will produce a password using whatever password hashing scheme your version of mysql uses. [EDIT: added -NB, which gets rid of the column names and ascii table art.]

Answer 2

The hash is sha1(sha1(password)). Since there is no salt (which is a grave security flaw), you can look up the hash in a table.

With just POSIX tools plus sha1sum from GNU coreutils or BusyBox, sha1(sha1(password)) is annoying to compute because the sha1sum command prints out the digest in hexadecimal and there is no standard tool to convert to binary.

awk "$(printf %s 'right' | sha1sum |
       sed -e 's/ .*//' -e 's/../, 0x&/g' \
           -e 's/^/BEGIN {printf "%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c"/' \
           -e 's/$/; exit}/')" | sha1sum

Python has standard digests in its standard libraries, so it's a simple one-liner.

printf %s 'right' |
python -c 'from hashlib import sha1; import sys; print sha1(sha1(sys.stdin.read()).digest()).hexdigest()'

Or with the password inside the one-liner:

python -c 'from hashlib import sha1; print sha1(sha1("right").digest()).hexdigest()'

Answer 3

MySQL 4.1+ uses double SHA1

> SELECT PASSWORD("right")
*920018161824B14A1067A69626595E68CB8284CB

> SELECT SHA1(UNHEX(SHA1("right")))
920018161824B14A1067A69626595E68CB8284CB

sh-3.2# php -r 'echo "*" . sha1(sha1("right", TRUE)). "\n";'
*920018161824b14a1067a69626595e68cb8284cb

This algorithm can be easily ported to other languages​​. A difference is that password hashes in the "select password" always begin with a “*” character.