Thanks! That worked a treat! I just cut-N-pasted the encrypted password into a file, compiled your program and just redirected the file into your program with
passcrack < password.enc and out popped her password. Once I had this info, I decided to just wipe Mandrake off her system and install ProgenyRC1 from my latest CD's, then I pointed /etc/apt/source.list to Ivan's site and did an apt-get install task-kde! Now she has a full KDE2.1 desktop. I've still got to get a few more things going but she is allready much happier with the Debian-based system! Thanks again for all the help! Cheers, John Gay