> I'm not sure about Windows, but in UNIX, the passwords are not
> decryptable.  Both cracker programs and the login program encrypt what
> you type in, or a guess in the case of crack and compare the string
> with whats in the shadow file ( actually on modern systems, there are
> PAM libraries that handle all this for you with a couple of API calls
> ).

Are the shadow files MD5?  If they are they can be cracked, assuming
you can get the shadow file. (http://www.milw0rm.com/cracker/) (well,
its a brute force technique, but it can be done, with rainbow tables
for md5, but you need i think around 80 gig's of tables[and the shadow
hash])

> -- Derrik

--
andrew

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