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
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