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are you aware of any crypt() implementation that does not
tolerate more than two characters in salt?

in FreeBSD, salt can take one of three forms:

 * DES extended format - 9 characters, starting from underscore.
 * modular crypt - starting with $digit$, up to 8 following
characters used for salt.
 * traditional crypt - salt length and use depends "upon the
algorithm for the hash.  For best results, specify at least
two characters of salt." [crypt(3)]

glibc2 (i.e. linux) implements MD5 passwords with salt
format same as in bsd modular crypt - up to 11 characters used.