On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 01:01, priou wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le lundi 06 Septembre 2004 00:43, Alexander Dalloz a écrit : > > Am So, den 05.09.2004 schrieb priou um 23:10: > > > i ve need to read , some passwd in my serveur ftp , but they are > > > crypted with shadow and i would like to make this : > > > > > > password_shadow ----> password_read_humain (printed on my > > > screen ) > > > > > > exemple : > > > $1$59BDQjvM$WCC3rboNRyuRsDzV.bHHF1 => dodou > > > > That is impossible. You can't revert crypted passwords back to the > > original string. > > > > See "man crypt". > > > > Alexander > > ok :( > our ftp customers will not be happy ... > thank for your answer > > alexandre It is possible to recover some of the passwords with a lot of processing power if you use crack on the password files (on a system where you have permission to do so). However, it is a brute force crack and not a decrypt method.
