how to get decrypted password???

[anoopborkar]

Hi there,
I need to get the root password, which is basically stored in /etc/shadow file in md5 format. I want it in decrypted format.
Any suggestion??

Thanx....

[likwid]

You can't 'decrypt' MD5. You can't even get the shadow file without root permissions anyways. If you for some reason had root permissions and needed the root pass (shady) you would save the shadow and passwd and run jtr on them.

[anoopborkar]

You can't 'decrypt' MD5. You can't even get the shadow file without root permissions anyways. If you for some reason had root permissions and needed the root pass (shady) you would save the shadow and passwd and run jtr on them.

Thnax for concern...
I am a newbie to linux. i somehow need to get the password string (original) or need to make something so that when i give a string which is my password for root i will get the same encrypted string. So that i can compare them for authentication. I tried with md5crypt command running on grub prompt, but it always creates a diff string(may b coz of diff key generation each time)...
Is their any other way out to this..????
Thanx....

[Juan Pablo]

Decrypting an md5 hash is impossible without 100 years, a cluster of 400 computers and a lot of luck
GRUB-CRYPT uses 'dirty' md5 hashes (inserts random characters in the hash). If you lost your password the easiest way of changin it is booting from a live cd and chrooting inside the root partition and changing it with passwd