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
