help on password decryption...

2000-07-31 Thread Kiran Banoor
hi, I want to know that is there anyway i can decrpt the passwords stored in htpasswd file in apache. I greatly appreciate any help on this.. Thanks kiran -Original Message- From: Ken Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:48 PM To: Mark D Wolinski Cc:

Re: help on password decryption...

2000-07-31 Thread John D Groenveld
Assuming you're trying to migrate your passwords to another system, there's no reason why you can't write your own Authen handler which captures the plain text password. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help on password decryption...

2000-07-31 Thread Ken Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kiran Banoor) wrote: hi, I want to know that is there anyway i can decrpt the passwords stored in htpasswd file in apache. I greatly appreciate any help on this.. Nope, you can't do it. Those are one-way hashes of the passwords, not encrypted versions of them. They don't