[mdlug] [WLUG] SuSE root breakin help needed

[Rick Green]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Jay Nugent wrote:

>   Anyone know a way to generate the one-way password encryption?  Then I
> can vi /etc/password and edit in the 13 character string???  Seems to me
> there used to be a 'crypt' command or something similar...
>
  Some systems still use crypt, others use md5 hashes.  If you have 
another system handy that uses the same algorithm, simply copy the hash 
value from its passwd (or shadow!) file for a known account onto the 
target system.

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Rick Green

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