No, it wouldn't because MD5 (as well as SHA and others) is a one-way encryption, that means it just makes a (almost) unique string out of an input string. There's no way to decrypt that hash back into the input string (if we leave out a brute-force attack, which is always possible).
If you use MD5 passwords, the password will be encrypted once and written to the directory, and when you try to login, the password you try to login with will be encrypted also and the two encrypted MD5-hashes will be compared - if they're equal, your login is correct - without ever using the cleartext password.
Hi Philipp, thank you very much for this explanation.
And which is the utility you use to create the MD5 encrypted string? Does your operating system provide a command for this?
bruno.
