Ethical Password Cracking by James Leyte-Vidal

Author:James Leyte-Vidal
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Packt Publishing Pvt Ltd
Published: 2024-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 6.3 – Password configuration on Ubuntu 20.04

As we can see, the password configuration should require a sha512 hashed password for users, as noted in the line with pam_unix.so obscure sha512. Let’s test this by creating a new user on this system, which should leverage a sha512 hash according to these settings. We can do this by issuing sudo adduser test at the Terminal to create a new test user, as shown in Figure 6.4:

Figure 6.4 – Creating a new user on Ubuntu 20.04

You may have noticed the questions about the full name, room number, and other details, and that we haven’t seen that information yet. We will come to that shortly. Now, let’s look at the /etc/shadow file again and see what data is in there for our new user:

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