Yes, you're both right. I finally realized what the problem was. I was making MD5 hashes on the command line with something like:
touch hashes.txt
touch MaryJane.txt
echo 'MaryJane' > MaryJane.txt
md5sum MaryJane.txt > hashes.txt
repeat for a couple of other easy passwords and >> into hashes.txt then remove the names of the contributing text files with nano leaving only the MD5 hashes.
I think perhaps I was not getting the MD5 hash of MaryJane but of 'MaryJane' or something like that.
Bottom line is you're both right, I assumed this was giving me the correct hashes but it wasn't (my bad) and hence hashcat wasn't finding the passwords in rockyou.txt because 'MaryJane' isn't in rockyou.txt but MaryJane is. Or perhaps I was MD5 hashing MaryJane.txt . . . not sure but solved anyway.
Must pay more attention to the little things.
Thanks to both @buka and @Spliceguy for correct and helpful info.
touch hashes.txt
touch MaryJane.txt
echo 'MaryJane' > MaryJane.txt
md5sum MaryJane.txt > hashes.txt
repeat for a couple of other easy passwords and >> into hashes.txt then remove the names of the contributing text files with nano leaving only the MD5 hashes.
I think perhaps I was not getting the MD5 hash of MaryJane but of 'MaryJane' or something like that.
Bottom line is you're both right, I assumed this was giving me the correct hashes but it wasn't (my bad) and hence hashcat wasn't finding the passwords in rockyou.txt because 'MaryJane' isn't in rockyou.txt but MaryJane is. Or perhaps I was MD5 hashing MaryJane.txt . . . not sure but solved anyway.
Must pay more attention to the little things.
Thanks to both @buka and @Spliceguy for correct and helpful info.