Re: Password Recovery

Mark South inscribed thus:

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?)

Nefarious intent !!!!
That had already taken place before I got involved!

If Windows utilities to do this are easy to come by, it seems like
Wine should be useful here.

I've no problems running Wincrap, but this is serious stuff. I have
already DD'd the disk. The original is no longer available to me. I
don't want to run Windows tools for fear of compromising the original
data, so I have several copies to play with.

The Wincrap tools are either crippleware or just don't work! I ain't
paying for tools that make promises that they can't keep. Hence my
question. I am sure that there are people out there that are far
more knowledgeable than I am!

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Best Regards:
Baron.
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