Warren Young wrote: > On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:08 PM, Jegadeesh Kumar <jegasmile at gmail.com> wrote: >> # Root password >> rootpw --iscrypted $1$1SItJOAg$UM9n7lRFK1/OCs./rgQtQ/ >> # System authorization information >> auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512 > > Those two settings are inconsistent. The $1 at the beginning of that > crypt(3) string means it’s an MD5 password. > >> Is there any way to decry pt the password and get it as plain text. <snip> This is all interesting, but I've got one dumb question: why do you need to decrypt it? mark