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Ouch!

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Somebody didn't do their homework...

Enter this into your Mac OS X Terminal (tested on 10.3.4), read your login-password in clear text and weep!
sudo strings -8 /var/vm/swapfile0 |grep -A 4 -i longname
(Found via Cryx at insecure.org)

Re: Ouch!

Posted by Jochen at Jun 29, 2004 10:48 PM

did not work on 10.3.2 --snip-- tlongname dxxxxxxxxxxxxx lpassword 1/bin/tcsh username -- longname xxxxxxxxxxxxx dapassword /bin/tcsh username --endsnip---

Re: Ouch!

Posted by Tom Lazar at Jun 30, 2004 08:58 AM

@Jochen: so what was the xxxxxxxxx then? just the x'es or the encrypted password?

Re: Ouch!

Posted by marco at Jun 30, 2004 09:08 AM

but you need "root" permissions to read /var/vm/swapfile0, where is the problem

Re: Ouch!

Posted by nina at Jul 06, 2004 08:53 PM

mit jaguar geht das nicht.
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