31 Mar
2015
31 Mar
'15
7:39 a.m.
On 03/31/2015 06:08 PM, Jegadeesh Kumar wrote:
I have the kick start file where my root password is store like
# Root password rootpw --iscrypted $1$1SItJOAg$UM9n7lRFK1/OCs./rgQtQ/ # System authorization information auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512
Is there any way to decry pt the password and get it as plain text.
No, it's a one-way hash. In other words it's possible to encrypt a password into the hash, but you cannot turn it back into a password. The way this works is when you login the password you provide is encrypted and the encrypted version is compared against this string to see if they match.
Peter