affdan,
You can not do too much to retrieve the original password. It in encrypted with unix crypt in one-way, and it's not possible to be decrypted.
Well, "brute force" hacking would be possible, by trying all possible password variations, but that is not the right way.
If the password was created under Unix/Linux, then it's same as result of unix crypt command.
If the password was created under Windows, then it's MD5 hash as far as I know.
Well, this one looks like unix crypt result, so the only thing you need to do to recreate another password hash, and replace the old one.
Here is the doc about .htpasswd:
http://httpd.apache.org/...ograms/htpasswd.html Also here are some tools for creating .htpasswd user/password pairs:
http://www.4webhelp.net/us/password.php http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/ Best regards,
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Re: [affdan] Password lost (.htpasswd creation problem)