My poor use of command line was at fault when diagnosing this issue. I did not use -n option when invoking echo.
Thank you very much! On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0600, Tristan Slominski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I thought this was going to be easy to find out, but after hours > > researching this and trying different things, I still don't know how to > > answer the question. > > > > I posted it on stack overflow here: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20952004/subversion-auth-svn-simple-hash-algorithm > > > > It boils down to this: > > > > Given ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/5671adf2865e267db74f09ba6f872c28 with > > the contents of: > > > > K 8 > > username > > V 3 > > joe > > K 8 > > password > > V 4 > > blah > > K 15 > > svn:realmstring > > V 45 > > <https://svn.domain.com:443> Joe's repository > > END > > > > What string to I hash to get 5671adf2865e267db74f09ba6f872c28? > > The creds file's name is indeed the MD5 checksum of the realmstring. > This code generates the name (in subversion/libsvn_subr/config_auth.c): > > /* Construct the basename of the creds file. It's just the > realmstring converted into an md5 hex string. */ > SVN_ERR(svn_checksum(&checksum, svn_checksum_md5, realmstring, > strlen(realmstring), pool)); > hexname = svn_checksum_to_cstring(checksum, pool); > > *path = svn_dirent_join(authdir_path, hexname, pool); > > > https://svn.domain.com:443> Joe's repository"), and I can't find one > that > > generates the correct hash. > > I'm not sure why your example doesn't work, but with a data set > of mine I get the right hash: > > $ cd ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple > $ echo -n "<https://svn.apache.org:443> ASF Committers:443> ASF > Committers" | md5 > d3c8a345b14f6a1b42251aef8027ab57 > $ grep ASF ./d3c8a345b14f6a1b42251aef8027ab57 > <https://svn.apache.org:443> ASF Committers > $ >
