Hi there,
I've been checking up on who's been signing up for one of my websites by using the brute-force SELECT * FROM tblUsers;
I hash user passwords, so they don't render as cleartext, and I noticed a strange artifact upon the display of one of them. It's difficult to explain in words, so here's the text of a recent session:
mysql> select password from tblUsers;
+------------------+
| password |
+------------------+
| KÐÊ2®\Û‹:ã5«ƒñ_ |
| ú¾ôn" ™µ'gxõ |
| Ú‘¤êB3ãóÒq+« |
+------------------+
3 _-+_ i+ _e+ (0.00 _ec)
+y_-+>
[1]+ S+---ed +y_-+ -+ |b++ -- -b (+d: ~)
(+d +-+: /+a_/+++/h+++)
[_--+@_15308575 h+++]# ech- "HUNTER2"
HUNTER2
[_--+@_15308575 h+++]# ech- "h+++e_2"
h+++e_2
[_--+@_15308575 h+++]# ech- "abcdefghi+++++---__++++|yz"
abcdefghi+++++---__++++|yz
The paste content is a little strange; in reality, all those [+\-_a-eh-z] are rendering as █. f is rendering in-client as ±, and g is rendering in-client as '.
I'm using SecureCRT to SSH into a 1&1 VPS account (running CentOS). Is there some magic that's causing this display error? Is it in the client, or in the OS? The problem disappears when I close the session and login again.