How to decrypt rootpassword form kickstart file on a centos machine

Question

I have the kick start file where my root password is store like

# Root password
rootpw --iscrypted $1$1SItJOAg$UM9n7lRFK1/OCs./rgQtQ/
# System authorization information
auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512

Is there any way to decrypt the password and get it as plain text. I know single user mode works but my case it in remote site.

Answer 1

No, it's a one-way hash. In other words it's possible to encrypt a password into the hash, but you cannot turn it back into a password.
The way this works is when you login the password you provide is encrypted and the encrypted version is compared against this string to see if they match.