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Originally Posted by RangerDown
That appears to be a base64 representation of your md5 hash. You need to make a Hex (base16) version. The output of a Hex representation will contain no other characters than the numeric digits 0-9 and letters a-f.
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Actually the hash is all the stuff after the 3rd '$' sign. The '$1$' at the start is a sig for a MD5 hash. The stuff up to the 3rd '$' is a salt to be used for hashing a possible client password. Try piping the string you've got through :
cut -d '$' -f 3
you should just have the hash itself.
Oh, and the string is bitwise packed as well - I suggest you look at the source in libc for the crypt function. GNU crypt uses MD5 if the salt begins '$1$', otherwise it's the old one that breaks easily.