How to create an MD5 password in java or Tomcat

Posted on 2009/05/31 by Balazs

To create an MD5 password at the prompt, assuming you have tomcat installed in /usr/local/tomcat, type

$ export TOMCAT="/usr/local/tomcat"
$ java -cp "$TOMCAT/server/lib/catalina.jar:/usr/share/java/jmxri.jar:$TOMCAT/bin/commons-logging-api.jar" \
org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a md5 [secret]

by replacing “[secret]” with the password.
Some systems have a working digest.sh script that does the same thing.

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