From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9T7Y-00032w-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:47:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7SJiC4F022384; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:44:12 GMT Received: from xmedia.sk (chello085216137197.chello.sk [85.216.137.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7SJec0T029365 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:40:39 GMT Received: (qmail 31891 invoked by uid 210); 28 Aug 2005 21:42:26 +0200 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by noro (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.83/819. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24st. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-5.7/5.0):. Processed in 1.186445 secs); 28 Aug 2005 19:42:26 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Aug 2005 21:42:25 +0200 Message-ID: <431213A1.10600@xmedia.sk> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:42:25 +0200 From: Norbert Kamenicky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050816 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system References: <49bf44f10508250847393673ee@mail.gmail.com> <20050825162144.GA11609@princeton.edu> <200508260750.49590.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <1125039047.5829.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1125039047.5829.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 97336de5-0ed8-4b17-a1fd-cd570f519b98 X-Archives-Hash: 5277b8e26bf74c7f5abbe568b3b758c3 Frank Schafer wrote: > There is no official hack to get the password out of the machine. It is > nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm itself is > not reversable. Yes, u are right, but encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow, and therefore u can try to decrypt them (using brutal force) by "john" (emerge johntheripper). noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list