passwords

[Robert Schuhl]

Not really, it could be one having the same hash, it is not a reversable coding, they are testing, if the password generated is having the same hash that is stored in passwd or shadow.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
William Deakin
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:06 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject: Re: passwords


Mayers, P J wrote:

> No, it's impossible. The passwords in /etc/passwd are not reversibly
> encrypted.

I'm not sure that this is completely true. It is *possible* to unencrypt
the passwords in the passwd and/or shadow file (this is what some crackers

spend alot of time trying to do) and is the reason why there is a separate

passwd and shadow file. However, it is not straightforward and depends of
the OS and implementation/version.

Cheers,

Will