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Use Hashcat to crack a local shadow file. What Is the password for the user account AGainsboro? - The shadow file (shadow) and Hashcat wordlist (gsecwordlist.txt) are located in the directory.home gia
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Linux and Cryptography
Question
Use Hashcat to crack a local shadow file. What Is the password for the user account AGainsboro?
- The shadow file (shadow) and Hashcat wordlist (gsecwordlist.txt) are located in the
directory.home giac PasswordHashing
- Run Hashcat in straight mod* (flag -a 0) to crack the MD5 hashes (flag -m 500) in the shadow
file.
- Use the hash values from the Hashcat output file and the shadow file to match the cracked
password with the user name.
- If required, a backup copy of the original files can be found in the shadowbackup directory.
Options
- AJ3@nGr3y
- BWwBoj25tT7
- CMsconfiG35
- DNoregrets2
- EHowAreWeToday?19
- FPrometheus
- G6dWalking8
- HIM-O-O-NI
- Iyoshiro392
- JMEWRULES
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Topics
#Hashcat#password cracking#MD5#shadow file