I suspect you can’t replicate scenario 4 because it was never a thing (Pretty natural to skip over something by accident). A trailing newline was my first thought, but scenario 4 ruled it out. If you can’t replicate it then it’s the likely answer.

Something like this would confirm

echo "$mypass" | md5sum

Vs

echo -e "$mypass\n" | md5sum

I’ll have a play tomorrow and see what I get.

I suspect opening up the two files in a hex editor will show the difference, assuming I can replicate your results.

Perhaps do it with the string “test” and post results so we can replicate.

Could it be a character encoding issue? Are you using utf-8 on both machines?

locale charmap to check (other ways: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5306153/how-to-get-terminals-character-encoding )

The thing that breaks things broke things. The thing that fixes things fixed it.

No. No it is not.

Storage of easily enriched material to prevent theft is a concern, especially given the number of incidents with jokers photographing themselves inside nuclear facilities and the results of FBI testing of nuclear site security protocols.

Additionally, given the ridiculously long half life of the products, you get into conversations about what happens on the thousands of years time scale in which it’s not reasonable to think that any given state remains politically stable.

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And we’re just ignoring the whole weapons proliferation side of things?

OK, I didn’t read before answering, probably ignore my answer below but I’ll leave it up incase someone learns something from it.

Edit: misunderstood what OP wanted to do, leaving this here in case it’s interesting to anyone.

Sounds like what you are tyring to do is called Split Horizon DNS.

Requests from outside your network should resolve server.domain.com to the public IP, but requests from inside your network should resolve it to the private IP.

If that’s what it is then you register the public IP with your nameservers. You also run a DNS service internally which you point all your computers at (likely by putting it as the DNS server in your networks DHCP settings). That DNS server is set up to return the private ip addresses for all your servers, and to forward any other requests to some external DNS like 1.1.1.1

I’m not sure what your use case or for needing to use the internal IP address from inside the network, but it might be to avoid traffic exiting your network just to be sent back in? Or you me a that you want external requests to go to one server and internal to go to another server? I’m which case the set up above still works, but on just use the appropriate IP addresses in the appropriate places.

Also, thanks, that’s awesome!

OK, but is coffee a soup?

Start with -2 bread and add one bread.

You can fear the implications of war without thinking you’ll lose it.

/c/mildlyinteresting

This is a technology post, not a “buy this car next” post. It’s moot if all you care about is your next car.

Maybe I’m biased because my only experience with arch in the past five years was install, boot, update packages, reboot, fail to boot, laugh, install Debian.

They’re usually clearly documented in support forums by people saying “MY STUFF WON’T BOOT PLESE HALP”

Sure, but they don’t just go installing arch from an arch ISO, they carefully curate an environment with a team of experts to make sure it doesn’t break.

That’s not the experience you’re gonna have gaming on Arch on your gaming desktop.

Seriously. All this talk of automatically updating versions has my head spinning!