hi dipankar,
The easiestway to a forgotten root password is to remove the password from
/etc/shadow for root by booting into a shell.but if U want to get the old
password,that is quite a impossible job.But U can try giving the password
string in shadow to a password cracker software which could try a brute force
dicronary algorithm to get it.search on the net for password cracking tools
like john's cracker etc.
>hello listers
>
>Though sound silly then too I want to know that is there any way that if
>some forget his root password & want to know what passwd he has assign
>rather that changing to new passwd for root.
>
>just reading the /etc/passwd shows
>
>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>
>ie passwd as x
read the /etc/shadow which would have the encrypted password
>
>how can we interpret this x in actual
the x is just x there is notthing to interpret
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>dipankar
sanjeev
--
---------------------------------------------
Sanjeev V Kumar
Systems Administrator
The Quantum Institute
Chennai
---------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
Find out more about this and other Linux India
mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
