You can't password encryption is not reversible, however you run a crack
program which will use a brute force method to guess the password.

If you are a privileged user (root) you can change it with 'passwd'.

cristina cunha wrote:
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> Hi,
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> How can I decrypt a password in the /etc/shadow?
> 
> Cristina
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