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Re: Users Password



Unix password encryption algorythm is a varient of the DES (Data Encryption
Standard) algorythm + 2 bytes (calles salt) added (in several iterations) to
make it ireversable (which it is;-)). I.e. you can't "reverse engineer" the
passwords from the passwd file....

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben - Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il>
To: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: יום ראשון 30 אוגוסט 1998 15:48
Subject: Users Password


>Hi
>
>Because i switch to other authentication system I need to get back all
>my users encrypted password form the passwd file (im talking on thousand
>+ - ).
>
>If ill have to call each one of them ill probably die :-(
>
>Is there a way to do this ?
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