[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kiran Banoor) wrote:
>hi,
>I want to know that is there anyway i can decrpt the passwords stored
>in htpasswd file in apache.
>I greatly appreciate any help on this..
Nope, you can't do it. Those are one-way hashes of the passwords, not
encrypted versions of them. They don't necessarily contain all the
information necessary to recover the passwords. The best you can do is
guess all possible passwords and see whether something matches (though
this can be done in smarter ways than pure brute-force).
Note: this question is definitely not a mod_perl question, and probably
not an Apache question either.
See the documentation for crypt() (present in Perl or Unix).
