Timeline for How to recover the password for a particular user account on my linux pc
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| Jun 20, 2012 at 12:03 | comment | added | Bobby | It is not encrypted, it is hashed. That's a difference, encryption implies that it can be decrypted, which is not the case, as a hash is a one-way function with no means to reverse the process. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 6:50 | answer | added | OmnipotentEntity | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 6:40 | answer | added | mgorven | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 6:11 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 20, 2012 at 5:39 | comment | added | kev | Why do you need to know the passwords of others? | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 5:38 | answer | added | user141092 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 5:38 | comment | added | Philip Kendall | This question doesn't really seem to be about programming; I think it would be more appropriate for another site in the Stack Overflow network - perhaps ServerFault? | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 5:33 | history | asked | chaitu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |