dipankar spewed into the ether:
>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.
Actually, your passwords are encrypted by a one way hash.
So you cannot reverse the encryption. However, you may be able to
run crack against /etc/shadow (which contains encrypted passwords).
This *may* work
>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>how can we interpret this x in actual
The x means that the actual encrypted password is in /etc/shadow.
Devdas Bhagat
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