On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:52:06AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> It is next to impossible to easily re-create the password from
> the encrypted form saved in the password database. getent only returns
> the encrypted version.
I hate to nitpick, but passwords are hashed, not encrypted... apart from
that, you're right. reversing an md5 hash is damned near impossible, not the
same can be said for a crypt hash.
Mike.
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