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Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- From: jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)
- Date: Fri Oct 20 16:09:06 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Jody Sanders <jody@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> How do I 'decrypt' the password in the /etc/passwd file.
It can't be decrypted (in the usual sense); your only chance is
brute-forcing cracking the password.
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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/