Bcrypt-hash a password

06 Jun, 2024 • 66 words • 1 min • updated 01 Jan, 2026

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Given the password correct horse battery staple, we would like to bcrypt-hash it.

Here’s one way to do so via the command line:

     shell
     
$ htpasswd -nbBC 10 "" 'correct horse battery staple' | tr -d ':\n' | sed 's/$2y/$2a/'

…which yields:

$2a$10$HKSHfLu4l7TvOmnLkhUngu2U1pJUUw7hEU0LE1iN84S09fJsZowHm

You could verify it matches e.g. via https://bcrypt-generator.com/.

Context: ArgoCD expects a bcrypt-hashed password in its config file.