etherboot and password

[lmuelle@gwdg.de]

Hello,

using etherboot ver3.2 with passwd option seems to be problematic.
I generate a md5 digit [md5sum (GNU textutils) 1.22] on different 
unix systems (3 linux, 1 digital unix) and can't reproduce the 
example digits mentioned in 'doc/.../vendortags...'.

For example 'echo Penguin | md5sum' produces
55b43a733411438c4c06c66fd2ccab26
and not
99625fa1cac27bb6a2b33b7638afe47

That's not realy my problem. But if I self generate a password digit, 
the password check of etherboot failed.

My first steps for solution are:
1. Subscribing the netboot mailinglist
2. Looking at the archive
3. Looking at the etherboot home page

But there is no known problem with password check or generation.

Any hints?

Cheers Lars
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Lars Mueller (lmuelle@gwdg.de)