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

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jody,

> How do I 'decrypt' the password in the /etc/passwd file.

You can't. There's no way to decrypt the passwords as they use a one-way
encryption method that hasn't been cracked. The only way to do it is to use
a brute-force method allied with a dictionary.

A common one used by Linux sysadmins to ensure that your users do have good
passwords is the following:
http://www.crypto.dircon.co.uk/download/c50-faq.html

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

Way to the Web Ltd
Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
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