Re: Password Recovery
- From: Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Sep 2007 19:03:36 +0200
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:36:46 -0500, sk8r-365 wrote:
Horton heard a Who named Mark South saying:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:15:47 -0500, sk8r-365 wrote:
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 OP isn't looking for a system password cracker, but wants to be able
to open archives that have been encrypted with a password. (Possibly with
nefarious intent?)
If Windows utilities to do this are easy to come by, it seems like Wine
should be useful here.
Oh, well I sure didn't get that from his post - maybe that's his
angle. At any rate, he just learned something more about the value
of Linux security as opposed to Windows, huh?
Disseminating knowledge about good security is always a big plus for one's
karma, indeed.
I guess that the fact there are crackers for those kinds of password
protected archives show it's not a really secure way to store sensitive
data.
Thanks Mark. Later.
À bientôt, mon ami :-)
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