If you want no downtime, use sucrack+john. Take https://labs.portcullis.co.uk/download/sucrack-1.2.3.tar.gz and https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper
Compile and run as folows ./john -min-len=8 -max-len=12 -mask="password?d" --stdout | SUCRACK_AUTH_FAILURE="su: Authentication failure" ./sucrack -u root -w 25 Where -mask is your partial password mask min/max expected length range to try Read https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/blob/bleeding-jumbo/doc/MASK 2016-11-21 22:25 GMT+02:00 Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>: > I have a running system that I have forgotten the root password. I really > do not want to take down the system, go through the steps to boot up in > single user mode and change the password. > > I just happen to have used the same password on a test system, so I was > able to copy the /etc/passwd, edit it so that it only contains the root > user and feed it into john on a notebook I have (F22). > > Well john has been working for 20 hours (one cpu pegged at 100%). I did > not think the password was that complex! > > Anyone have any experience with this? Is there a better cracker than > john? I DO know a couple of the letters in the password (not the numbers > or special characters or the letter case) and password length. Is there > some tool that I can feed in a partial password like 'a?bc??d?"? > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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