>.Though sound silly then too I want to know that is there any way that if
some forget >his root password & want to know what passwd he has assign
rather that changing >to new passwd for root.
NO one (even a valid root user) can decypher a password, because it
encrypted with
with some salt mechanism (I don't know much)
Some password cracker program are available which try to encrypt and match
the results with /etc/passwd string. But this does not work for shadow
password.
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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