From the course: Kali Linux Essential Training
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Having a ripping good time - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Kali Linux Essential Training
Having a ripping good time
- [Instructor] Let's see how we can crack a password hash file. We'll use our Kali password file. But before we do this, let's create a couple of new accounts. We'll add George with a password of big secret, but in hacker form. Sudo adduser George, and we'll put the password B 1 G - S 3 C R 3 T. B 1 G - S 3 C R 3 T. And we won't put any details in. Yes, the information's correct. We'll add Franz with a password of password1. Sudo adduser Franz. The password is capital P A S S W O R D 1. (keyboard clacking) Password1. And again, we won't bother with any details, but yes, they're correct. John The Ripper is a popular password recovery tool, which is included in Kali. Let's use it to try to crack our password hash file. Passwords are stored in the slash et cetera directory as the two files called password and shadow. Using a form of hash known as yescrypt. We'll use John's unshadow tool to combine them…
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