How to crack an Ubuntu user password easily with John The Ripper.

Cracking an Ubuntu password with John the Ripper is very easy. All that is needed is a good wordlist and the John The Ripper utility. Install the John the Ripper password cracking utility. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/Windows$ sudo apt install johnjason@jason-desktop:~/Documents/Windows$ sudo apt install john Dump the Linux user account information to a file from the shadow and … Read more

Crack a Fedora 25 password with john the ripper easily. This is fun.

To crack a Fedora Core password hash easily, the john the ripper utility will come in handy. This allows cracking of Linux passwords without much fuss as long as the password is in the wordlist. Install the utility. [root@darkstar Documents]# dnf install john[root@darkstar Documents]# dnf install john Then it is necessary to make a copy … Read more

Cracking Windows 10 passwords with john the ripper on Kali Linux 2016.

Break Windows 10 password hashes with Kali Linux and John the Ripper Cracking the SAM file in Windows 10 is easy with Kali Linux. Use a Live Kali Linux DVD and mount the Windows 10 partition. Firstly, get the SAM and SYSTEM files from the C:\Windows\System32\config folder. Copy these to your desktop directory. Then dump … Read more

How to crack Linux passwords using john the ripper.

Firstly, for the purposes of this exercise, we are creating a new user with a simple password. I used a user named “vaas” and gave him the simple password “password”. Then run this command to create the file that john the ripper will be using. ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > pass.outubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo unshadow /etc/passwd … Read more