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