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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 checked. If they were to switch to checking the MD5 of…
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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-to-new-server/. At the time of configuring…
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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 (for example rkhunter could do this check against the originals when doing probupdate) How could I check all packages with one script?
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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 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openssh-server.md5sums are…
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Software to brute force MD5 password on multi-core machine?

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 some people will take issue with this. It's your…
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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 a WAN is about half the speed of just doing the…
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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, password encryption setting is: $CONF['encrypt'] =…
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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 -bc .htpasswd usename password I need to generate…
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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 understand why these two check sums are…
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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 modifiers: N/A But when run with, it gives a…
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Two salts, One password

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 cracking, that is.
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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 believe I have tracked down the problem to the…
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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…
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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-server running. I used FileZilla to download that file…
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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 as the password, have written a small utility…
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