MySQL Hashing Function Implementation

Question

I know that php has md5(), sha1(), and the hash() functions, but I want to create a hash using the MySQL PASSWORD() function. So far, the only way I can think of is to just

Answer 1

Based on the PHP implementation above, here's a Perl example that works.

use Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1 sha1_hex);
sub password { "*".uc(sha1_hex(sha1($_[0]))) }

The password function returns the same as the MySQL5 PASSWORD() function.

In answer to "why would anyone want to do this?", I use it to generate SQL "CREATE USER" statements that don't contain plain-text passwords.