how to decrypt /etc/shadow

[Markku Kolkka]

yogesh at banasdairy.coop kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika 
maanantai 25 joulukuu 2006 13:21):
> hi how can i decrypt ./etc/shadow file
> convert into user readable format

/etc/shadow is already a plain ASCII text file, the format is 
described in "man 5 shadow". If you mean the one-way encrypted 
password fields in the file, they can't be decrypted back into 
plain-text passwords.

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