Re: how to decrypt /etc/shadow

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On 12/25/06, Markku Kolkka <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yogesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika
maanantai 25 joulukuu 2006 13:21):
> hi how can i decrypt ./etc/shadow file
> convert into user readable format

/etc/shadow is already a plain ASCII text file, the format is
described in "man 5 shadow". If you mean the one-way encrypted
password fields in the file, they can't be decrypted back into
plain-text passwords.


But you can try an "brute force" with john the ripper...

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Rodrigo Machado


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