[4212] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: re-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Drobnis)
Thu Jan 30 15:50:28 1997
Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:40:55 -0500
From: "Adam Drobnis" <Adam.Drobnis@bankerstrust.com>
To: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu> (Return requested)
cc: xande <xande@venus.rdc.puc-rio.br> (Return requested)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
If I may interject, why wouldn't Alexandre need to ask this question if he had
a legitimate reason for attempting to crack a password file?
I may be naive in my assessment of his request, but, if one knows how to crack
an encrypted password file, can they not, in turn, provide a better defense
from future
attacks?
Adam Drobnis
Alexandre Alvarenga wrote:
>
> Thanks for the purpose of passwd file....
> I'd love it....
> But...i'm in trouble...
> When i get the passwd file from unix...it is encrypted...
> How can i decrypt it to use a passwd cracker from unix?
> I'd like to obtain a answer....
> Thanks all
> By xande
I'm sure you would!
If you have legitimate reasons for attempting to crack a passwd file
then you probably wouldn't need to ask this question.
Mike
