Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd

[David Schmidt <listacct@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:36 PM 10/19/2000 +0000, Jody Sanders wrote:
> How do I 'decrypt' the password in the /etc/passwd file.
> I'm a competent CGI programmer so any routines would be useful.
You don't. They are Unix CRYPTed. The only way would be with a dictionary 
attack that crypted, compared, etc...

...David