Is it possible for root to know user's password ???
I would like to know - is it possible to know user's password when you are root ??? Thanks for any answers :)) -- Jedis are alive --
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 05:55, magre wrote:
I would like to know - is it possible to know user's password when you are root ???
Not really. You can still run something like John the Ripper across the
password file and find weak passwords, but you can't look in /etc/passwd
and just see the users passwords in clear text.
HTH,
--
Anders Karlsson
On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:06 -0500
magre
I would like to know - is it possible to know user's password when you are root ???
No, since the passwords in /etc/shadow are either the resultant of a one-way hash function or MD5. However, root can su to any user and have access to all files on the system. Charles -- We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. (Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu, paraphrasing a quote of Shakespeare)
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