[ale] root wants to read a PW

[Stephan Cerruti]

Hi
Thankyou for your answer, please could you tell the all process to decrypt
the password. like which file as the encrypted PW, which soft to use to
decrypt, ...
Thank you for your help.


Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" wrote:

> #I use RedHat 6.1 and would like to know how I can read the password of
> #one of my users.
> #Under Gnome all PW are encripted....
> #Please could you help me .
> #Stephan
> Under UNIX, all PW are encrypted. Mostly encryption uses standard 'crypt'
> call with a two-letter string as salt. (The first two letter of the
> encrypted PW is the salt). So, you can hack your way through.
> If you have access to /etc/shadow, you should have access to all his/her
> stuff then why you need password for.
>
> #