Linux Password Cracking
Methods to crack passwords on linux
Using John the Ripper
Its Soo simple to Find the user password using John the Ripper
copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file in any dir
using unshadow file to merge the passwd and shadow file . ( UNSHADOW )
After merging use the john --wordlist=/path/to/wordlist
Note : If you view john input and see $y$ right after the username, then that indicates the passwords are hashed with yescrypt.
It appears John needs a little help with detecting the hash format, so try changing your command line to the following:
Of course the default password for the kali user is solved much faster by simply running:
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