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dive · 01-19-2008, 06:31 PM

You want to find out who does not have a password?

zeynep · 01-20-2008, 01:38 AM

Goodmorging,
A would like to list paswodless of the sisytem users.And would like to save them to the /etc/paswordless.

Thank you.

Tinkster · 01-20-2008, 04:39 AM

Code:

awk -F: '$2 !~ /[a-zA-Z0-9]/ {print $1}' /etc/shadow

And this is quite different from your initial request.

And that information isn't stored in the passwd file.

Cheers,
Tink

zeynep · 01-20-2008, 05:47 AM

Thinkster thank you,

yes its different but related with my first question

but giving fatal error i think direction > missing isint it

says permission error for read shadow

shahz · 01-20-2008, 07:15 AM

try to use john the ripper if you are intrested to get the passwords

Tinkster · 01-20-2008, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeynep

Thinkster thank you,

yes its different but related with my first question

but giving fatal error i think direction > missing isint it

says permission error for read shadow

You need to be root to do that. That's the whole point
of the shadow suite - ordinary users can't read the file.

Quote:

originally by shahz
try to use john the ripper if you are intrested to get the passwords

And if you're NOT root john the ripper won't do you any
good, either, because you need to join passwd & shadow
to make use of john.

Cheers,
Tink

Looking_Lost · 01-21-2008, 01:08 AM

as root: passwd -S whatever_user_name will give the account status for a user the output of which you can parse away on. man passwd