Password problems

scudelari · 2009-04-01 08:25:56

Hello Everyone,
I've made something VERY stupid. I was trying to install the FreeNX server and, since it wasn't authorizing the connection, I tryed to use, as it explains in the installation, the usermod as stated.
The only problem is that I didn't read the documentation and, instead of putting the encrypted password in the command line, I put the normal password.
Is there ANY way to discover now the password that encrypted would give me the non-encrypted password?

This will make things easier to understand the problem.

The stupid command was this one:

usermod -p rafaelloikju root

So, what I need is:

encrypted(string) = rafaelloikju

What's the value of STRING?

Can anyone recover this password? I don't even have access to my linux box now, as obvious.

I really thank everyone for the help.
Rafa

Allan · 2009-04-01 08:26:53

Don't post duplicate:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68843

finferflu · 2009-04-01 08:58:32

Took care of the duplicate.

Allan · 2009-04-01 09:04:13

OK.... I'll open this up again.

scudelari · 2009-04-01 10:38:08

I am sorry for the duplicate, but I didn't know in which I should post.

Apart from that, does anyone knows if there is a solution to the problem?

Hrod beraht · 2009-04-01 14:08:55

Check out the password recovery wiki article.

Bob

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