Iris, password hashes are not meant to be decrypted that's why brute force is needed. but in your case, i really don't think it's necessary. perhaps your fellow sysad is making fun(?) of you or he/she haven't tried (hint) migrating/replicating user credentials before?
Ariz On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Iris Lames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let me explain my purpose.... > > Our LDAP server was created by one of my fellow-sysad. I am tasked to > create a new server that does not need to query on the LDAP server but has > the same credentials on the LDAP server. In order for me to do that, I need > to see the user's account and password in cleartext and manually create it > (useradd) in the new server and I'll create a script to sync passwords to > LDAP. My only problem is that the password is encrypted and I dont know how > to decrypt it so that's why I'm asking PLUG to help me if they know how to > decrypt. > > Yes, I tried googling it too but no success on howto decrypt.
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