Re: How to know an encrypted password
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:48, jsalord@publicom1010.com wrote:
> How can I desencrypt some user password being root?
>
> Because if any user forgets his password I can't remeber it to him.
Simply put, you cannot decrypt those passwords. Less simply, you _could_
theoretically crack the passwords by brute force. The encryption is
one-way, so there's no mathematically simple way of undoing it. It's
part of the security scheme.
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