You mean to say getting ROOT password using a cracker?????? But where to run that cracker? As all passwd or shadow files are owned by ROOT.
Dheeraj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH]Authentication Error 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 -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
