Subject: Re: why doesn't NetBSD ship with md5sum or sha1sum?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/19/2006 17:07:54
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:59:29AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> I just installed 3.0.0_STABLE.  Did I miss some set that contains
> the binary verification tools md5sum or sha1sum?  Without these you
> have to go back to an older machine with trusted tools just to get
> started.  One or the other of these tools, preferably both, ought
> to be in base, IMHO.

AFAIK, md5sum and sha1sum are Linux (GNU)-isms. NetBSD rolls all the
various checksums and hashes into the cksum utility. For MD5, use
"cksum -a md5 filename", and for SHA1, use "cksum -a sha1 filename"
(Both do have shortcuts: "md5 filename" and "sha1 filename")
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