IYpi3tbduwbfwm Such a password can't be cracked by brute force.
... and it's easy to remember. If Your password is 3 times better, don't use words brute force won't matter. I use to use SUCH passwords. ;) On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:46 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote: > On 8/26/05, Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 18:21 schrieb ext Willie > Wong: > > > > > Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into > single for you > > > and reset the password there. > > > > Single wouldn't work, You still get a login: prompt. The > only ways to get at > > it are LiveCD or booting with "init=/bin/bash". > > > > Bye... > > > > Dirk > > Right. Due to the fact that he got a new password, I think > they did it > exactly that way (LifeCD or boot disc). > > There is no official hack to get the password out of the > machine. It is > nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm > itself is > not reversable. > > Not the best way to do it, but getting the crypted form of the root > pass and using it for a brute-force attack wouldn't get a good result? > By good result I mean a positive match within a short period of time! > Of course I assume for that, that he had an idea of what was the > password like.. number of characters, use of symbols, and so, so that > he could apply the attack as nearer of the real pass as possible.. > would this be a possible way to do it? > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
