Add generate_random_salt.sh script #8
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allows for automatic configuration of SteamIdHashSalt on Linux (or WSL) updated the readme to reflect this
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As pointed out in #1 and #4 , the addition of SteamIdHashSalt has confused some users.
To help users I added a script 'generate_random_salt.sh' to automatically generate a random 32-length hexadecimal string and write it to reunion.cfg.
It's also helpful for hlds container autoconfiguration scripts and the like.
Also changed the Readme to reflect this.
The script should be compatible with pretty much any distro out there as it requires tools that should exist in any of them: grep, wc, sed plus one of openssl / hexdump / xxd / tr.
The script checks for the existence of these tools and chooses the correct one or fails gracefully if it cannot find them.
The script is a good stopgap solution but further on it could be considered that if SteamIdHashSalt is left blank, ReUnion would automatically create a random salt and write it to reunion.cfg.
This is as simple as reading random bytes from /dev/urandom on Linux or using advapi32:SystemFunction036() on Windows (SystemFunction036 is supported by WinXP/Server2003 and up, so on earlier Windows it could still fall back to the original error message).