On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:19:08PM -0000, Amit D Karia wrote:

Hi would like to know abt this command of red hat linux

grub-md5-crypt its easy to encrypt the passwd from this command but how to store the encrypted password ,,, And again is it possible to decrypt the passwd

And also do let me know abt 'idecrypt'command is it possible to decrypt the passwd from the password

Also tell me few others algorithams or commands of any flavor that would encrypt the normal text ,,,

regs..

Hello Amit,

Check gnupg (gpg) for more encryption commands/options. Encryption algorithms are usually two ways (decrypt the encrypted text to get back the original text). Hash is one way (you cannot get the original text back). examples - MD5, DES, Blowfish,etc.

Amish.