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Anyway I can crack a linux mint password? - throwie.awa - 12-10-2022
Ok, I gotta make sure I explain this good, Or someone may call the police.
About 2 years ago I installed mint in my computer, shortly after, my computer, (minus the hard drive) unfortunately died
Without a X86 computer, I couldn't boot into the os, and with time, I forgot the main user password, I now got medium access to the drive (using hashcat with an arm64 board, no, it isn't fast, it's very painful actually, but that's what I have)
Any way I can get the password from the mint drive? I may probably have full access to a X86 just for me, but there are still some files I get to catch and probably a few passwords and user data
Any help is very welcomed
RE: Anyway I can crack a linux mint password? - Banaanhangwagen - 12-10-2022
You need to crack the hash typically stored in /etc/shadow.
Find it, compare and format it as described here https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes, and finally try to crack it with Hashcat.
RE: Anyway I can crack a linux mint password? - viffju - 12-12-2022
If the drive is not encrypted just mount it and read the data.
You can also easily chroot and reset the root password.
If it's LUKS encrypted look here: LUKS Support