Decoding SHA Password in LDAP

[Rajesh Babu]

Hi all,

have any body ever decoded the SHA Password in LDAP. i just need the sample code to do it.

need help buddies...

[Marten Deinum]

You cannot and never will be able to... SHA is one way only... Once on SHA you can never get back, else it would be a crappy encryption solution wouldn't it if it would be easy to convert back.

[Rajesh Babu]

hi, thx for ur reply.

i have to get the password of the particular user in the ldap.
attribute.get("userPassword").toString is giving me a random value. i am unable to find the solution to get the password of the LDAP user. plz suggest me some way with sample code.

thx.

[Marten Deinum]

As I already stated you cannot do that, if you could it would be a crappy encryption strategy!!!

The only way to do it is to use brute force hacking techniques which will probably take several weeks/months/years to hack the password.

[sre786]

You should probably explore the reset-password options.