[wellylug] Password cracking

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Thu Sep 23 22:54:46 NZST 2004


Thanks I will look into that


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 21:37, Andrew Childs wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Try app-crypt/johntheripper (gentoo). More information at 
> http://www.openwall.com/john/
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:32, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > 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?
> 




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