The password_hash filter will generate a salt value if none is supplied.
The character set used by Ansible
(upper & lowercase letters, digits)
did not match that used by libc crypt
(upper & lowercase letters, digits, full stop, forward slash).
This resulted in a slightly smaller key space, and hence hashes would be
slightly easier to attack (e.g. by dictionary, brute force).
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