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From: hades at psilanthropy.org (Anders Langworthy) Subject: mysql password cracking David Hane wrote: > I'm wondering how dangerous it is to allow a user on a > mysql db to view the grants for another user. Could > they take the encrypted password data and possibly > crack it? If they can, how easy is it? If a user can read the password data, it should be possible to do a dictionary-type attack against the hashed passwords. John the Ripper has a plugin for MySQL passwords. The difficulty (time) is dependent primarily on the weakness of the passwords used.
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