This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.0).
To install it use: ansible-galaxycollectioninstallcommunity.general.
Whole reason for using MD5 hashes is to keep from saving the password in a decryptable form. To verify authenticity you compare the MD5 sum of a password given with the MD5 sum that was created when the password was created. Then you never sacrifice the password. Hashes are designed not to be decryptable. Hence there is no way (unless you bruteforce for a loooong time) to get the password from the.htpasswd file. What you need to do is apply the same hash algorithm to the password provided to you and compare it to the hash in the.htpasswd file. If the user and hash are the same then you're a go.
- Encrypting a password is useless when you can't keep it encrypted. The instant you decrypt it, it's vulnerable again. No matter how cryptographically hard they are, the encryption and decryption methods are right there for anyone to see and copy-paste anyway.
- Hashing is a one-way process but using a password-list you can regenerate the hashes and compare to the stored hash to 'crack' the password. This site attempts to do this for you - run through passwords lists and tell you the cleartext password based on your hash.
Decrypt Hashed Password
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.htpasswd.
Add and remove username/password entries in a password file using htpasswd.
This is used by web servers such as Apache and Nginx for basic authentication.
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
Greatland 2 room tent. passlib>=1.6
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| attributes string | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string. | |
| create |
| Used with state=present. If specified, the file will be created if it does not already exist. If set to 'no', will fail if the file does not exist |
| crypt_scheme string | Default: | Encryption scheme to be used. As well as the four choices listed here, you can also use any other hash supported by passlib, such as md5_crypt and sha256_crypt, which are linux passwd hashes. If you do so the password file will not be compatible with Apache or Nginx Some of the available choices might be: apr_md5_crypt, des_crypt, ldap_sha1, plaintext |
| group string | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
| mode raw | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like 0644 or 01777) or quote it (like '644' or '1777') so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r). | |
| name string / required | aliases: username | |
| owner string | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
| password string | Must be specified if user does not exist yet. | |
| path path / required | Path to the file that contains the usernames and passwords | |
| selevel | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range.When set to _default, it will use the level portion of the policy if available. | |
| serole string | When set to _default, it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | |
| setype string | When set to _default, it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | |
| seuser string | By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | |
| state string |
| Whether the user entry should be present or not |
| unsafe_writes boolean |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. |
How To Decrypt Htpasswd Passwords
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.0).
To install it use: ansible-galaxycollectioninstallcommunity.general.
Whole reason for using MD5 hashes is to keep from saving the password in a decryptable form. To verify authenticity you compare the MD5 sum of a password given with the MD5 sum that was created when the password was created. Then you never sacrifice the password. Hashes are designed not to be decryptable. Hence there is no way (unless you bruteforce for a loooong time) to get the password from the.htpasswd file. What you need to do is apply the same hash algorithm to the password provided to you and compare it to the hash in the.htpasswd file. If the user and hash are the same then you're a go.
- Encrypting a password is useless when you can't keep it encrypted. The instant you decrypt it, it's vulnerable again. No matter how cryptographically hard they are, the encryption and decryption methods are right there for anyone to see and copy-paste anyway.
- Hashing is a one-way process but using a password-list you can regenerate the hashes and compare to the stored hash to 'crack' the password. This site attempts to do this for you - run through passwords lists and tell you the cleartext password based on your hash.
Decrypt Hashed Password
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.htpasswd.
Add and remove username/password entries in a password file using htpasswd.
This is used by web servers such as Apache and Nginx for basic authentication.
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
Greatland 2 room tent. passlib>=1.6
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| attributes string | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string. | |
| create |
| Used with state=present. If specified, the file will be created if it does not already exist. If set to 'no', will fail if the file does not exist |
| crypt_scheme string | Default: | Encryption scheme to be used. As well as the four choices listed here, you can also use any other hash supported by passlib, such as md5_crypt and sha256_crypt, which are linux passwd hashes. If you do so the password file will not be compatible with Apache or Nginx Some of the available choices might be: apr_md5_crypt, des_crypt, ldap_sha1, plaintext |
| group string | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
| mode raw | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like 0644 or 01777) or quote it (like '644' or '1777') so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r). | |
| name string / required | aliases: username | |
| owner string | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | |
| password string | Must be specified if user does not exist yet. | |
| path path / required | Path to the file that contains the usernames and passwords | |
| selevel | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range.When set to _default, it will use the level portion of the policy if available. | |
| serole string | When set to _default, it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | |
| setype string | When set to _default, it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | |
| seuser string | By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | |
| state string |
| Whether the user entry should be present or not |
| unsafe_writes boolean |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. |
How To Decrypt Htpasswd Passwords
Note
This module depends on the passlib Python library, which needs to be installed on all target systems.
On Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora: install python-passlib.
On RHEL or CentOS: Enable EPEL, then install python-passlib.
How To View Encrypted Password
Authors¶
Type Password To Decrypt Storage
Ansible Core Team
Decrypt Password Online
> It's not easy to write bruteforce decryptor as it generates new
> password each time upon generation.
The salted hashes are only a challenge if you don't have the salt,
like in the case of generating rainbow tables.
> 2010/6/18 Miguel González Castaños <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For a hack lab in that I'm doing I reach a point where I get a htpasswd
>> file in clear in an Apache server.
However, the original poster has captured the file, and therefore has
the full salt and hash. So a brute-force or dictionary attack against
the captured hash using any number of the tools already mentioned in
this thread will work just fine.
PaulM
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