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| From: | Norbert Kamenicky <noro@××××××.sk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system | ||
| Date: | Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:47:12 | ||
| Message-Id: | 431213A1.10600@xmedia.sk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system by Frank Schafer |
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| 1 | Frank Schafer wrote: |
| 2 | > There is no official hack to get the password out of the machine. It is |
| 3 | > nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm itself is |
| 4 | > not reversable. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Yes, u are right, but encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow, |
| 7 | and therefore u can try to decrypt them (using brutal force) by "john" |
| 8 | (emerge johntheripper). |
| 9 | |
| 10 | noro |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |