Re: Password Recovery
- From: sk8r-365 <sk8r-365@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:15:47 -0500
Horton heard a Who named Baron saying:
Can anyone point me at any password recovery tools for Linux that can
recover "ARC, ZIP, RAR & ZOO" archive passwords.
Not the way it works in Linux: Linux systems use shadow passwords. There's a
file /etc/passwd, but it saves everything except password hashes. The system
doesn't save user passwords. What is saved, or stored, is the value of a one way
hash algorithm from processing the password. That password will always have to
the same hash value - the system compares hashes instead of actual "passwords".
You should boot the computer in single-user mode and change the password.
I can find plenty for Windows, both free and paid for! But it seems that ones
for Linux elude me.
No surprise.
HTH,
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sk8r-365
The only way to make Windows "secure":
1) go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com
2) replace existing operating system.
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