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Commands tagged md5

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Terminal - Commands tagged md5 - 13 results
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums|grep usr/sbin/sshd|sed 's,usr,/usr,'|md5sum -c
2013-03-12 11:20:48
User: Ztyx
Functions: cat grep md5sum sed
Tags: md5sum md5 checksum
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Verify a file has not been tampered with since dpkg installation

Replace "user/sbin/sshd" with the file you would like to check. If you are doing this due to intrusion, you obviously would want to check size, last modification date and md5 of the md5sum application itself. Also, note that "/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums" files might have been tampered with themselves. Neither to say, this is a useful command.

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read -s pass; echo $pass | md5sum | base64 | cut -c -16
2011-11-24 20:23:47
User: bugmenot
Functions: cut echo md5sum read
Tags: password md5 base64 passphrase
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Create strong, but easy to remember password

Why remember? Generate!

Up to 48 chars, works on any unix-like system (NB: BSD use md5 instead of md5sum)

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python -c 'p="SeCuR3PwD";import hashlib as h;s=h.md5(p).hexdigest()[:2];pw=h.md5(s+p).hexdigest();print pw+":"+s;'
2011-10-16 18:49:08
User: Xiol
Functions: as python
Tags: python md5 zen cart zencart
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Generate a ZenCart-style MD5 password hash.

ZenCart uses a MD5 with a salt to secure its passwords. If you need to forcibly change someone's password to a known value within the database, this one-liner can generate the password. Change the value of 'p' to the password you want.

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IFS=$'\n' && for f in `find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+/Checking:/'; echo $f | cut -f1 -d' ' | netcat hash.cymru.com 43 ; done
2011-10-15 03:38:47
User: Neo23x0
Functions: cut echo md5sum sed
Tags: netcat virus check md5 malware online
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Find Malware in the current and sub directories by MD5 hashes

Command makes use of the Malware Hash Registry (http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/MHR/).

It parses the current directory and subdirectories and calculates the md5 hash of the files, then prints the name and sends the hash to the MHR for a lookup in their database.

The 3rd value in the result is the detection percentage across a mix of AV packages.

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wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][cripted]=1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1" http://md5-decrypter.com/ | grep -A1 "Decrypted text" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'
2011-10-13 03:48:54
User: samhagin
Functions: cut grep sed tail wget
Tags: md5
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Decrypt MD5

Decrypt MD5 , replace 1cb251ec0d568de6a929b520c4aed8d1 with the MD5 string you want to decrypt

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wget -qO - --post-data "data[Row][clear]=text" http://md5-encryption.com | grep -A1 "Md5 encrypted state" | tail -n1 | cut -d '"' -f3 | sed 's/>//g; s/<\/b//g'
2011-10-13 03:44:48
User: samhagin
Functions: cut grep sed tail wget
Tags: md5
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Encrypt text to md5

Encrypt any text to MD5 , replace text with the string you want to convert to MD5

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echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | cut -b-32
2011-03-05 19:05:50
User: shopeonarope
Functions: cut echo md5sum
Tags: cut md5sum md5 hash checksum
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Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum
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echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '
2011-03-05 03:53:09
User: xakon
Functions: cut echo md5sum
Tags: cut md5sum md5 hash checksum
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Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum

Nothing special about hashing here, only the use of cut, I think, could result at fewer keystrokes.

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echo -n "String to MD5" | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'
2011-03-05 02:37:28
User: twjolson
Functions: awk echo md5sum
Tags: openssl md5
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Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum
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echo -n "String to get MD5" | md5sum | sed "s/ -//"
2011-03-03 23:40:04
User: Tephlon
Functions: echo md5sum sed
Tags: sed md5sum md5 hash checksum
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Generate MD5 of string and output only the hash checksum
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
2010-08-24 19:57:24
User: potatoface
Functions: find xargs
Tags: md5sum recursive md5
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calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree

an alternative

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find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > sum.md5
2010-08-24 09:37:31
User: Tungmar
Functions: find md5sum
Tags: md5sum recursive md5
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Calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree
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php -r 'echo md5("password") . "\n";'
2010-02-07 21:39:07
User: mvrilo
Tags: Encryption password PHP md5
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Use php and md5 to generate a password

another alternative to encrypt strings

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