[wellylug] Password cracking

[Chris Hodgetts]

Things are slowly being cleaned up and Chris and his militant security
policy's are being implemented - but anything I attempt to do is
thwarted by Management - See previous posts and join the IRC channel to
get an idea of the conditions I have to work under.........

Plus, Every "Software Developer" has root access to every one of our
servers (Including Windows boxes) anyway and this does not seem to worry
management...

Anyway enough bitterness :)


On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:44, Andrej wrote:
>  On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> and
> 
> > That person has since left the company...
> 
> So you're afraid that a live system might break because
> certain processes *may* be run from a user account which'
> owner has left the company? That's scary :}
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
>