Hi ! Sorry for replying so late. My modem stopped working and I didnt have my RH cd for the drivers (Motorola) :( Neway I got that part abt NIS (yp*) (Thanx to Prasad ). Thanx to Kingsly for pwunconv. But what do u mean by MD5 pass? I thought MD5 was only a checksum tool while DES is an encryption tool. Therefore one cannot 'decrypt' an MD5 word because no such thing exists. If u mean converting the given pass with a MD5 key and then comparing it to the known passwd - it will work 2^64 times (which is awesome) but still that means there are infinite other passwords that may work. Neway I am not aware of the usage of MD5 for encrypting. So ne idea what technique does linux use for encrypting pass ? I thought linux still uses DES :) I have heard abt a new technique called IDEA but have no idea if it is used in linux or not. Thanx ! cya Vikas Baligar P.S> check out http://www.nic.mil/ftp/rfc/rfc1321.txt for more on MD5.
> From: Vikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: PESIT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:52:32 +0530 > Subject: [LIH] Disabling Shadow Passwords > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi group ! > Any idea how I can disable shadow passwords ? I > tried yppasswd (and ypcat - > ypcat passwd > passwd.txt) , but it asked me for a > master ypserver. whats > that and what should i do ? > For those who want to know why I am disabling the > shadow option - I wanted to > try 'crack' to crack the DES passwd in /etc/passwd > . ;-) > > - -- > Vikas Baligar Yahoo Id : jaguarontherun ICQ # > 44959823 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE72u1a8YcXAWS9uU4RAq2nAJ99F8Eex1lCsfv3NqO/brz982VqpwCfb9y4 > XFcfgKlUz4UZgFmKFQ3EjlY= > =pED4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > ATTACHMENT part 3.12 message/rfc822 > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:54:49 +0530 (IST) > From: Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIH] Disabling Shadow Passwords > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Vikas wrote: > > |Any idea how I can disable shadow passwords ? I > tried yppasswd (and ypcat - > |ypcat passwd > passwd.txt) , but it asked me for a > master ypserver. whats > |that and what should i do ? > > yp* has nothing to do with /etc/passwd > > what you are looking for is pwconv and pwunconv > read the manpages for more information > (these are part of the shadow-utils rpm in RH ) > > |For those who want to know why I am disabling the > shadow option - I > |wanted to try 'crack' to crack the DES passwd in > /etc/passwd . ;-) > > DES passwd ?? what distro are you using ?? for over > 2 years now I've been > on MD5 passwords... > > Kingsly > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
