RE: [cobalt-security] Is this suspicious?

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Andy Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have a RaQ2 myself, so can't check, but best is to do an md5sum on the file:
> > md5sum /usr/bin/passwd
> > then compare the output to somebody else's machine.
> >
>   Hey! Andy, I don't think you can md5sum two different files and
>   comeup with the same data!, I know it's early, and it's  Monday.
>

  Sorry for that,
    It's early for me, and it's Monday morning
    I was thinking of /etc/passwd :(
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Hehe, you had me wondering for a minute there if i'd been using md5sum in a totally stupid way there!!

Hope this has helped somewhat, Julian, Jay's md5 looks identical to my visual glance, so looks like as Eugene has hit the spot with the answer :)

hth,
Regards,

Andy
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