Questions tagged [md5]
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check MD5 checksums from md5 file in Windows
Hopefully a simple question, does a simple Windows command line equivalent to md5sum --check [files.md5] exist? Alternatively, something I can script as a batch file.
I can generate the hashes file ...
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Linux md5 checksum issue
I have a directory in which thousands of directories are present. I need to get md5sum of only around 60 directories from this list of thousands of directories.
How do I selectively run the md5 on a ...
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NGINX secure_link returning 403
I´m using the following serve block to serve some mp4 files using NGINX secure link.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/cdn;
index index.html index.php ...
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Removing old files from home directories
I need to find and remove files older than 2 weeks from the home directories of my cluster.
I do not want to let people just "touch" the file to change the modification date and keep it for ...
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RPM --queryformat FILEMD5S checksum is different than md5sum of machine
The RPM man page says:
The FILEMD5S Tag The FILEMD5S tag is used to display the MD5 checksum
for each of the files that comprise the package.
Array: Yes (Size: One entry per filemd5s)
Used with ...
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Compute and update the md5 hash after the fact
So... I just realized that the utility I’ve been using to upload data to azure blobs has only been setting content-md5 hashes for the small files, leaving the larger (more important) files without a ...
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Does AWS cli do a data integrity check on sync with s3? [closed]
I've been looking into using AWS cli for data integrity checks to verify a backup has been transferred from a Linux file server correctly to AWS s3. Likewise, I would like to verify when restoring a ...
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Different md5sum on 2 NFS clients
2 machines are mounting the same NFS folder(which is on a single 3rd machine).
Files get uploaded from either client server to this mount, usually in chunks. Server A might handle a chunk, then ...
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MD5 hash comparison over SMB SLOW
I'm scripting a full backup solution in powershell on Windows server 2016 for Hyper-V VM's and have run into the issue that calculating the MD5 hash over the network on a mounted network drive across ...
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Two salts, One password [closed]
If I have two different MD5 password hashes with two different salts (the salts are known), is there any way to cryptographically deduce if the two passwords match? Other than brute force password ...
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configuring MD5 bgp authentication on solaris 11 using quagga
I am attempting to configure a BGP router within a solaris zone, using dedicated network interfaces. Upstream provider insists on the use of MD5 authentication.
I have no bgp sessions coming up. I ...
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Windows 2012 R2 - Search for Files using MD5 Hash?
My organization recently discovered malware that was sent to some users via email that managed to get past our email security in a sophisticated, targeted attack. The names of the files vary from user ...
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Secure link depending only on directory name?
I am currently struggling to make nginx secure just folder name, dependlessly what the file name inside of it is. Let's say, I'm accessing a file in a folder /one/two/three, it would look like this:
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Password mismatch in dovecot with postafixadmin
After many hours trying to set up a new mail server, I just can't figure out why the passwords which postfixadmin store are a mismatch with what dovecot passes for authentication.
In postfixadmin, ...
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Understanding linux /etc/shadow file structure (Linux) [closed]
Consider the following line taken from /etc/shadow file:
root:$1$NFEf74q.$bmukkxAq9dOMJINgEtP7u0:15258:0:::::
From this I understand that the hashing algorithm is md5 ($1) and starting from third $ ...
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Migrate user and passwords to new linux box
I am trying to migrate old Centos 4.3 box to Centos 7.
I have followed the migration steps from an article published way long back on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-...
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Check all debian binaries against the checksum of the original
I would like to check all binaries on my server against
dpkg -e <path_to_deb_package> <destination>
(for example rkhunter could do this check against the originals when doing probupdate)...
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Why are md5 passwords hashed differently?
I've been wondering for a while, why does running "echo 'helloworld' | openssl passwd -1 -stdin" yield different results every time?If I put any of the hashes in my /etc/shadow I can use them as my ...
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MD5 for Git's git-credential-osxkeychain executable? [closed]
This question copied over from Super-User, where it was apparently unwelcome. Anyway, asked and answered:
I'm setting up a GitHub account and have downloaded Git's git-credential-osxkeychain ...
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vsftpd will not accept passwords encrypted with MD5
I am setting up an server with vsftpd to let virtual users access their space. Now it is fully working but only with CRYPT passwords. So
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/vsftpd/ftpd.passwd phpmyadmin
will not ...
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Moving a 13 gig file over sFTP (md5sum fails)
Each time I download a big file over sftp, the md5sum on the source machine doesn't match the md5sum I do on the destination machine.
I have a 13gig file on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine with openssh-...
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debsum and actual md5
I have discovered that debsum maybe does not work as i thought.
I ran
debsum -as
And actually i did not see sshd binary in that list.
However md5 of the /usr/sbin/sshd file and the numbers given ...
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Change password hashing algorithm for SuSE users from blowfish to MD5
I have a network of roughly 1000 SuSE machines with 20-200 users on each. The password hashing algorithm used is the default i.e. blowfish. In order to check, whether a user has used a dictionary word ...
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changing shadow hash algorithm to bcrypt: how to rehash
I want to change my SHA512 shadow file to use bcrypt as shown in this question/answer: Enable blowfish-based hash support for crypt
The problem is that i run into a chicken and egg problem, because ...
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How to generate a Linux Apache password file on a PC running Windows 7?
My development machine is Windows. I use the htpasswd program that is part of the Windows XAMPP package, version 1.7.7, to generate a Windows Apache password file.
C:\xampp\apache\bin\htpasswd.exe -...
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LDAP passwords encryption (userPassword attribute)
I'm trying to import passwords from an LDAP to a MySQL database. When I look at the userPassword attribute for the known password test I get this:
userPassword:: ...
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md5sum of large files gives different results sometimes
I have an AMD quad core, 8 gb RAM, 1 SSD EXT2 (2 months old), 2 HDD EXT4, approximately 1 year old.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64 and when I compute the md5sum of large files (9 GB) sometimes I get ...
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How to create an SHA-512 hashed password for shadow?
The previous SF questions I've seen have lead to answers that produce MD5 hashed password.
Does anyone have a suggestion on to produce an SHA-512 hashed password? I'd prefer a one liner instead of a ...
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Prompt server for Etag or MD5
We are a price comparison portal and crawl certain websites on a regular basis. I am looking for a method to save bandwidth by avoiding downloading the same page over and over again if the content did ...
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How can I ensure non-corrupt file transfer in linux?
I have script scheduled with cron that transfers a file around to other machines using scp filename user@host:~ and today have noticed that sometimes the md5 of the files don't match. Upon closer ...
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Calculate MD5 checksum of a directory
I'm looking for a quick way to compare directory contents. Is it possible to do an md5sum (or equivalent checksum) of an entire directory?
Using Ubuntu Linux
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Software to brute force MD5 password on multi-core machine? [closed]
First off, I'm well aware that this is a controversial topic. I can give my word as a sysadmin that I have the best of intentions (depending on how you view the next paragraph) but I understand that ...
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Can I force the passwd command to use MD5 hash (and not crypt)?
How can I force the passwd command to use MD5 hash and not to use crypt? I need to get the passwd command to talk to the ldap server (which it does) and use MD5 when I change passwords for the users.
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Creating an MD5 file for a directory tree for only a given extension
I would like to create an MD5 file of a directory tree, containing only the bare names of the files. md5deep exactly does that, but it cannot filter for files when in recursive mode.
md5deep -rb . &...
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Is there any value in checking MD5 of files after they have been unzipped?
A project I am working on currently requires that the user runs an MD5 hash checking tool on the entire project, after it has been unzipped. They do not currently request that the ZIP itself is ...
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md5sum returns different results for a folder, but why?
/tmp/file.txt
tar cvf 1.tar tmp
md5sum 1.tar
c32dc6f04ff02b371129dd4aa923cc12
rm 1.tar
cd tmp
touch test.txt
rm test.txt
cd ..
tar cvf 1.tar tmp
md5sum 1.tar
f9204f04ff02b300130ee4aa234aa78
i dont ...
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Is it secure to encrypt my POST variables to md5 before sending them?
I have a simple login form where a user enters their username and password. When php receives the vars via POST, it encrypts the password to md5, then compares it with the database records.
My ...
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Securing NTP: which method to use?
Can someone good at NTP configuration please share which method is the best/easiest to implement a secure, tamper-proof version of NTP? Here are some difficulties...
I don't have the luxury of having ...
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HOw to know if files md5 chnaged by virus or system itself centos
I installed OSSSEC to very files have chnaged or not.
But sometimes it is giving me false waring and integrity checksums like following files have chnaged.
How can i makesure that files are chnaged ...
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Puppet - MD5 sum of string
I would like to name a file based on a MD5 sum of certain characters. Such as $environment and $URL. So from a high-level what I'd want is something like md5("http://$environment/$url").
Does anyone ...
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Can "tar" backup incrementally?
I have my home folder with a few GB.
Is it possible to run tar on it, create a home.tar.gz, and then for changed files, it creates home1.tar.gz only with modified files from previous tar (thus being ...
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Different md5sums for same tar contents
I run a test creating two tars from the same dir (its files remained unchanged), and I found that their md5sums were different. I assume there's some timestamp being included in the tar's header, but ...
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Ubuntu - Is there any programme for MD5 rainbowtables on Ubuntu?
I've been reading about Rainbow Tables recently. There's a few webpages that will do a reverse look up for an MD5 hash. Is there any programme on Ubuntu that lets me do this? Is there something in ...
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