On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > No, it's not reversable. There is no way to get the original password from > the data in the shadow password file. > > Login simply takes the password the user enters, encrypts it using crypt(), > and compares it with that's in the password file. No decryption is done. Correct. So you are still stuck with a brute-force attack. George Bonser The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you!