Re: shadow file

From: Justins local account (justin-nntp_at_pipemedia.net)
Date: 12/13/04


Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:43:49 +0000

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes:

> In article <cp6ki9$je4$05$1@news.t-online.com>, Frank <lol@privacy.net> wrote:
> :i'd like to see if it's possible to decode this file....
>
> :root:$1$BZftq3sP$xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51:12747:0:99999:7:::

> Thus, in order to decode the password, one would have to find a
> password whose MD5 was represented in base64 as xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51 .

password when hashed with BZftq3sP as a salt matches
xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51

> There are services which are generating pretty much all 8 bit
> lowercase + digit plaintexts and using MD5 to encrypt them and
> saving the result, but these services don't work with the "salted"
> MD5 of shadow password files.
>

--
Justin Murdock


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