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

Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
From: Peter Low <peterlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 19 09:32:02 2000
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At 03:36 PM 10/19/00 +0000, you wrote:

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

I'm a competent CGI programmer so any routines would be useful.

Thanks guys!

Jody.

My understanding is that you don't decrypt the password. You pass thepassword input through the crypt algorithm to see if you get the sameresult. If the output from the algorithm is the same for the input as forthe password, then the input is the same as the password.


Peter

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