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RE: [cobalt-users] unencrypt a cobalt user password?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] unencrypt a cobalt user password?
- From: Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Feb 1 06:40:42 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hello Clint,
> Is there a way to retreive a users password without resetting
> it? Like some
> how unencrypt the password or something? Also.. where are
> the encrypted
> passwords located for each user?
No, and they aren't.
The passwords are one-way encrypted and cannot be decrypted. The only way
would be using a brute-force application which uses dictionaries for
password guessing one of which I've posted to the list in the past.
Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson
Way to the Web Ltd
Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
http://www.waytotheweb.com