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

[MistaAviB@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 10/19/00 2:15:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< > > How do I 'decrypt' the password in the /etc/passwd file.
 
 Am I blind or something!?... I don't even see an encrypted portion (which 
would
 be a password) in any of the lines in my
 
 /etc/passwd
 
 file?
 
 ~ Theo [RaQ3i] >>

That's the shadow password protection. You MUST be on as root to see the 
encrypted password which is in /etc/shadow - ONLY ROOT can see this file. 
/etc/passwd is blank so that no none can even SEE the encrypted password :-)

Avi.