Re: decryption of "rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXX"

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:29:24 -0400, neo haux wrote:

> Hi Linux lovers,

echo "Hi Linux lovers" | sed -e "s/Linux/RedHat/g"

:-P
 
> I am wondering what type of encryption is used by the option : rootpw
> --iscrypted
> 
> in the kickstart file ?

Google points to an MD5 hashed password, does it make sense? Manual will 
confirm.

> And is there away to get back the password in clear text from that
> encrypted text ?

Hum... by decrypting that md5 hash? :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón