How to recover password.

mohsan1987 · Post by **mohsan1987** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:36 pm

is any one tell me how to grab password from etc\passwd and etc\shaddow

waiting for ur reply..

Kdaemon · Post by **Kdaemon** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:47 pm

password stored in these files is encrypted (md5 hash),
what do you really mean by to recover ?

mohsan1987 · Post by **mohsan1987** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:49 pm

the one way is to login as root and edit both files to remove password. how can i guess exact passwrd in text. not in MD5 format

kbukhari · Post by **kbukhari** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:58 pm

its inlegall

Kdaemon · Post by **Kdaemon** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:22 pm

mohsan1987 wrote:the one way is to login as root and edit both files to remove password. how can i guess exact passwrd in text. not in MD5 format

study cryptography

but why do you need such information ?
Is it for good purpose or the wrong one?

mohsan1987 · Post by **mohsan1987** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:12 pm

i need it for good purpose, for information...

AsadRasheed · Post by **AsadRasheed** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:04 pm

Salam
Dear mohsan1987,

Use John the Ripper to crack encrypted password , or you can say translate encrypted password into readable format .

Regards,
M Asad Rasheed

Post by **LinuxFreaK** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:38 pm

Dear AsadRasheed,
Salam,

AsadRasheed wrote:Use John the Ripper to crack encrypted password , or you can say translate encrypted password into readable format .

Might be you take me wrong but don't you think its againts our rule no 3.

* We have zero tolerance for piracy and warez in this group. Any attempts of asking or offering warez will result in the post being silently dropped.

because if what he want to do is illegal

Best Regards.

server · Post by **server** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:30 pm

Use John the Ripper to crack encrypted password , or you can say translate encrypted password into readable format .

this software for cracking password and its banned. John the ripper is basicly for testing our passwords week, good or strong. dnt use this one for bad things
Thanks
Good Bye

LinuxNerd · Post by **LinuxNerd** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:44 pm

Well if the password in shadow is hashed MD5 or SHA1 (which it is not so) then you cannot recover it as hashing is a one way function that is it is not reversable, that is why sometimes if you forget your passwords at YAHOO! or Hotmail they reset your passwords. Anyways the password in shadow file is encrypted using DES algorithm. You can view that also from

man crypt

You can easily create a C program to create your own implementation of extracting password from shadow file.

Post by **lambda** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:04 pm

LinuxNerd wrote:You can easily create a C program to create your own implementation of extracting password from shadow file.

unless you know of a bug in des that no one else knows about, there is no way to go from the encrypted password in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow to the original text. are you aware that des is used as a one-way hash for the passwords? read the source code to the crypt code.

LinuxNerd · Post by **LinuxNerd** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:30 am

err BUG give me break... DES is an encryption algorithm. There is a world apart difference between encryption and hashing. Encrypted text can be decrypted, but hashing is a one way function. You need to study cryptography to get that, linux wont explain that. By the way RSA and DSA (these are much better than DES, 3DES, Rijndael, RC5, AES, ...) can be decrypted as well. I leave that part for the learned here

to think and figure out how. Googling can solve lots of your woes, it would tell you how can you encrypt and decrypt these implementations. To calculate hashes (MD5 or SHA1 namely) is what we call in modern day world brute force or dictionary based password cracking, which some tools do used as mentioned in one of the recent posts. So it isnt impossible, it is just that we are unaware.

Might like to read
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO-2.html

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