RE: [cobalt-users] unencrypt a cobalt user password?

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

I'll just correct my own reply...

> > 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.

I meant, you cannot decrypt it, you will have to reset it. If you're on a
RaQ then user passwords are  held in the /etc/shadow file.

> 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

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