From: Ceri Storey <cez-misc.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-02-22T19:42:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating a cryptographic MD5 hash

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:22:27AM +0900, Tim Bates wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I want to generate an MD5 hash of a password in the same format as is 
> written to /etc/shadow. 

As far as I can see, you have two options. You can either port re-write
the algorithm (to be found here[0]) in ruby using Digest::MD5.
Alternatively, you could create a small C wrapper around the existing
implemenation. 
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Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>