are there any "/r" or "/n" in the file?
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Niklas Gustavsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Daan Hoogland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am considering implementing a apache ftpserver on a freebsd machine. I >> try the file-based usermanager and I try to use the commandline util md5 >> to generate a password for my user. The resulting string I enter in the >> properties file but my user cannot log on, after restarting the server. >> >> Are there some particularities to consider when generating passwords? Or >> is there a standard utility packaged with the server that should be used >> instead? > > I tried using the md5 command on Ubuntu (from the sleuthkit package) > and it generates different hashes from what Java does, and also > different from some online MD5 hash services I tried (like > http://www.md5.cz/). All online services generates the same hash as > Java which leads me to think the the shell command does something odd. > > FtpServer does nothing besides using a regular MD5 hash, using > http://www.md5.cz/ should work fine. > > /niklas >
