How To Extract Root Password In Linux?

Author: admin  //  Category: Linux

you could use a root kit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit)http://packetstormsecurity.org/groups/te…
adore is a linux LKM based rootkit. Features smart PROMISC flag hiding, persistant file and directory hiding (still hidden after reboot), process-hiding, netstat hiding, rootshell-backdoor, and an uninstall routine. Includes a userspace program to control everything.
or an old school way is to use cracker jack to perform a passwd bruteforce attack on the shadow file (/etc/shadow), but ironically you have to have root access to get that file

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