Re: Decrypt Passwords

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* <msouza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-08-20 19:39 +0200]:
> There-s a form to decrypt the passwords stored in /etc/shadow file?

The values in /etc/shadow are only hashes (think of checksums) of the
real passwords, so they cannot be decrypted. But there are tools like
"john" or "qcrack" which can guess the real passwords in a few days.

Good luck!

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