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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

John the Linux Password Ripper

John is a cross platform password cracker that can be used to regain your lost Linux password. It is a good administrative tool for a multi-user system. The Linux version of John, that also has versions for Dos and Windows, comes as a downloadable source code, together with its signature. On Debian based platforms like Ubuntu, it could be installed directly from the repository with

sudo apt-get install John

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