[ale] root wants to read a PW

[Christopher S. Adams]

it's actually not possible to decrypt the password as such
what can be done is use a program to encrypt a wordlist and compare it to
the encrypted password
your password file should be /etc/shadow or some variation

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: Stephan Cerruti <cerruti at club-internet.fr>
To: "Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\"" <z.yu at Premcall.com>; ale <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] root wants to read a PW


> Hi
> Thankyou for your answer, please could you tell the all process to decrypt
> the password. like which file as the encrypted PW, which soft to use to
> decrypt, ...
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
> Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" wrote:
>
> > #I use RedHat 6.1 and would like to know how I can read the password of
> > #one of my users.
> > #Under Gnome all PW are encripted....
> > #Please could you help me .
> > #Stephan
> > Under UNIX, all PW are encrypted. Mostly encryption uses standard
'crypt'
> > call with a two-letter string as salt. (The first two letter of the
> > encrypted PW is the salt). So, you can hack your way through.
> > If you have access to /etc/shadow, you should have access to all his/her
> > stuff then why you need password for.
> >
> > #
>