Question: Password Cracking You have found the below entry in the /etc/shadow directory of your target. What is this user's password? badUser:$6$khK6Oykn$qCgfApa53X47Yjj0CeiZu14dImqcwSGL6KZ6VFknoLam//JC5MdNK/7lstWooihlHdeN0M4ouu3vXl6hOw81v/:17230:0:99999:7: Password Cracking Hints: Remember,

Password Cracking You have found the below entry in the /etc/shadow directory of your target. What is this user's password?

badUser:$6$khK6Oykn$qCgfApa53X47Yjj0CeiZu14dImqcwSGL6KZ6VFknoLam//JC5MdNK/7lstWooihlHdeN0M4ouu3vXl6hOw81v/:17230:0:99999:7:

Password Cracking Hints:

Remember, to crack a hash with a tool like John the Ripper, you need to unshadow the file first

To unshadow a file, you need two things from the same user, one from /ect/passwd and one from /etc/shadow. One of these two things has already been given to you.

We have the ability to create new users in linux. Those newly created users get stored in /etc/passwd

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