Password Recovery

ejbrever · #1 (**permalink**) 08-22-2006

Hi, I am new to unix and I set a password for a user and now I need to recover what that password was. Is there a way, where as root, I can view what a users passwords is?

Thanks,
Eric

System Shock · #2 (**permalink**) 08-22-2006

Nope, but why would you want to do that, anyway? If you are root, you can change that users passwd to whatever you want.

ejbrever · #3 (**permalink**) 08-22-2006

duh, thanks, i should have thought of just doing that.

Thanks again.

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