[H-GEN] md5sum generation

[Sandra Mansell]

Rick Phillips wrote:

> 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.

Um, I'm no md5sum expert, but it seems to me that doing it on a text 
file will generate an md5sum for the file, not the contents. This would 
surely be different to generating an md5sum of the contents of the file.

Sandra.
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