[H-GEN] md5sum generation

[Rick Phillips]

> > I know I cannot generate a checksum by doing -
> > 
> > md5sum password
> > 
> > but I can generate at checksum on a file containing the single password. 
> > Doing it this way would be tedious and would lead to errors.
> 
> Either of these commands given to bash:
> 
>   echo "password" | md5sum
>   md5sum <<<"$password"
> 
> will do it on a single line, if that is what you
> want.

Thanks Russell but these two lines don't give a result consistent with
the database.

If I create a text file with blahblah in it and run "md5sum textfile", I
get 42d388f8b1db997faaf7dab487f11290

If I run either of the other two examples, I get
7ec306b6fa01510ffc4e0d0fac97c23e (I assume the "$" above is a typo as
this gives yet another result.

Problem is that the only result which matches a test database entry is
the first one done on a file containing the password.

I don't really understand why the results are different but I need to
make this work properly.

Rick