On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM, navin.karmarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > hi my all linux friend > > i m studying linux. i m student of bannerjee sir. plz guide mehow to > reconvert the password of md5 format to our normal format.
Hi Navin, What you are trying to achieve is extremely difficult, if not impossible. The hashes are *one-way* encrypted. However, you can try brute-forcing if you have loads of time. Let us know how it goes. I'm just curious, where would you get the password hash from? The shadow file is not readable by non-root users. If you are already root, you can just su - to any user without needing the password (if PAM permits - default). Regards, NMK.
