[wellylug] Password cracking

[Chris Hodgetts]

My thing is to give that password to another user to use to access that
account :)


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:40, Andrej wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:32, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > Hello all
> Hi
> 
> > I have access to the /etc/shadow file - actually I am root on
> > this box, and want to hack a password for a user, because I
> > dont know what it is and I dont want to change it and then
> > have it break something live.
> >
> > Ummm any ideas?
> If you're root, why not just 
> su - <username>
> (without knowing the password), do your thing and be
> done with?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
>