How To Recover Lost Ubuntu Password In 2 Minutes || #softwareduck

This might be a shocker for the beginner Linux enthusiast. All the big talks about Linux being secured and all, but in reality it takes less than 5 minutes to hack in to world’s most popular Linux distribution Ubuntu. Shocked! I am not bragging here. Its true. Lets see how can you hack login password to gain access in to Ubuntu. Lets see step by step how to hack Ubuntu password.

Step 1:

Switch the computer on. Go to Grub menu. Generally it appears automatically, if not then hold down the shift key until the boot menu appears. In the grub menu, choose for the “recovery mode” option.

It will bring you a black screen with several lines of output being displayed in a flash. Wait for few seconds here.

Step 2:

Now you will be present with different options of recovery mode. Here you need to choose “Root Drop into root shell prompt“. Like in the picture below:

Step 3:

Here, you will be presented with root access (why? Is this not a security fault?) without prompting any password. Use the following command to list all the users available:

ls /home

From the previous command choose the “username” for which you want to reset or (say) hack the password. Now, use the following command to reset the password for the selected “username“:

passwd username

It prompts for new password. Enter the new password twice:

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

Voilà! There you go. You have just cracked it and now you can easily enter into the system.

Possible Troubleshoot:

While entering the new password you might be prompt with Authentication manipulation error like this:

passwd username

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

passwd: password unchanged

The reason for this error is that file system is mounted with read access only. Change the access and remount the file system in the following manner:

mount -rw -o remount /

Now try to reset the password again. It should work now.

Were you successful in this hacking attempt? Or did you face any problem? Do let me know. Cheers 

How To Reveal Hidden Passwords (Asterisks) In Web Browsers || how to see password behind stars *****

In many places where you need to input your password to gain access, authorize or confirm a transaction, whenever you type passwords into the input text box, the characters automatically turns into asterisks or bullets. This is to protect your password from straying eyes.

However, in situations that require you to know what lies behind those asterisks, we’ve got a simple trick to reveal the passwords on your web browsers.

These hidden passwords are disguised with the help of simple HTML and CSS. So just changing the value of something specific will easily reveal what’s behind those bullets or astericks. We’ll show you how this is done in Google Chrome and Firefox.

Google Chrome

In any website which contains your saved password, right click on thepassword box and click on Inspect element.

You’ll now notice the bottom quarter of your screen filled with codes. You only need to focus on the highlighted (in blue) part to reveal the password.

Look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘.

It should now look like type="text". Hit Enter.

After you’ve changed that, the text behind the asterisks or bullets will be revealed.

Mozilla Firefox

To reveal the password in Firefox, first, right click the password box and selectInspect Element.

A dark grey bar will appear at the bottom of the browser; click on the Markup Panel or hit Alt + M.

It will reveal a few lines of codes; the line you want to focus at is thehighlighted line.

Again, look for type="password" and double click on it. Replace the word ‘password’ with ‘text‘ so it looks like type="text". Then hit Enter.

The password masked behind the asterisks or bullets will now be revealed.