Have you tried the following from the commandline?

perl -MDigest::MD5 -e'print Digest::MD5::md5_hex("user:realm:password")'

(that should be all on one line)? It should produce the MD5 password string. If that works, but the following into your perl script:

use Digest::MD5;
...
my $MDpasswd=Digest::MD5::md5_hex("$user:$realm:$password");

where $user is the 'user' variable generated within your script, $realm is the 'realm' variable generated within your script and $password is the plain text password generated within your script (perhaps the code between 'use Digest...' and 'my $MDpasswd=...' opens up the files you were mentioning and reads from it the user, realm and uncoded passwords).

Hope this helps

In reply to Re^5: Passing values to htdigest from command line problem by jaf
in thread Passing values to htdigest from command line problem by Nik

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