Like you've probably already read, crypt() is a one way encryption method.
UNIX Password files use this function to crypt their passwords actually.
I'm not going to give you a detailed explanation of how it works, but here's
a simple one :)
Ok... consider this:
* You think of a number. Let's say 43.
That is your password.
* The function then possibly divides this by 12, and stores
the remainder as X. X in this case would equal 7.
* The crypt() function returns X (which is 7) as your crypted password.
This is not how crypt() actually performs, but it gives you a rough
idea of how one way encryption works. You see, there is no way on
earth you can reverse the process so that you start with 7 and end
up with your starting number (in this case 43).
Hope this makes things a bit clearer.
>I'm working on two different places right now, and I wrote some code to
>show imps the password of any player in the game for one of them. In my
>transfering of the code to the second mud, the GET_PASSWD(ch) and
>chdata.pwd return the crypted passwords. This was not the case for the
>first mud, but both use password encryption. I'm guessing that since one
>is FreeBSD and the other is Linux (redhat 4.0 i think), that the encryption
>is a ton different. What I'm asking is where I could find a way to DEcrypt
>the password string.
>
>Chuck
>
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