[ale] Plz Help root to decrypt a user PWD

[Byron A Jeff]

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> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Stephan Cerruti wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > I know exactly what I am asking and i know this is not very right. But Let me
> > explain you why.
> > I thought i would be able to avoid talking about that, BUT...
> > Agnes was one of my parents, using my computer (before she died) and we have
> > several reasons to think that she was using the same password for different
> > purposes.
> 
> Stephan -
> 
> You are assuming two things here:
> 1) (as you said) 'agnes' used the same password repeatedly, and _also_
> 2) diverse systems she used perform the encryption in the same way.
> 
> If assumption (2) is right, any text string which yields the same key
> should work; if that string doesn't work, you need to start again on the
> other systems: whether the password is the same or not is immaterial.

I'm unclear on your point here John. If she used the same password everywhere
then obtaining that password from any single source should be sufficient
to access the other systems regardless of encryption scheme on the other
systems.

Did I miss something?

BAJ