Rohan Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is not possible (IMHO) to retrieve any passwords,
> as they are stored in a 1 way encryption format.
> Yes, you may get the encrypted password,
> but it is highly impossible to decrypt it.
There are lots of password crackers available - john etc.
Especially if these people haven't used mkpasswd or something to
generate the password, but used regular names etc, it should be able to
retrieve the password quite fast.
-srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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