How to verify a htpasswd-generated bcrypt hash using PHP?

Question

I have to verify bcrypt-hashes created by apache's htpasswd tool (v2.4.41) using PHP's password_verify (v7.4.3).

But if I generate a hash:

$ htpasswd -nbB test pass
test:$2y$05$m73wHlBS62EUh7uAxbUCJ.gHIfcEgiorl/1LrzNRAlSSH4bmrBUEy

... and then try to verify it in PHP...

cat << EOF | php -a
if (password_verify('pass', '$2y$05$m73wHlBS62EUh7uAxbUCJ.gHIfcEgiorl/1LrzNRAlSSH4bmrBUEy')) {
  echo 'match';
} else {
  echo 'mismatch';
}
EOF

... mismatch is printed. PHP can however verify its own bcrypt hashes...

cat << EOF | php -a
if (password_verify('test', password_hash('test', PASSWORD_BCRYPT))) {
  echo 'match';
} else {
  echo 'mismatch';
}
EOF

... this prints match . How can I get password_verify to verify the externally generated bcrypt hash?

Answer 1

The problem was that in my real-world code there was additional whitespace at the end of the hash due incorrect parsing of the hash value out of a .htpasswd file.

The 'simplified' example in the OP introduced another, different problem (due escaping special characters in the hash on the commandline) and failed because of that.