Re: decryption of "rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXX"
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 05:12:57PM CEST, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> said:
> 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.
Yes it is...
> > And is there away to get back the password in clear text from that
> > encrypted text ?
>
> Hum... by decrypting that md5 hash? :-?
>
> Greetings,
Difficult...
(PS : why on the *debian* list ? kickstart is used in
redhat/centos/fedora, but in debian preseed is used for this purpose.
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