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Thread: Password hacking by bruteforce?


hi,
think easy hack passwords in linux, did not try yet. if use sudo 3 attempts correct password. if enough time should no problem hack bruteforce. imagine script attacker places on machine runs few hours or days.

think more effective delete user out of admin (or adm?) group user cannot danger anymore. have login root , readd user then.

say: if login root got same effect sudo. of course same. why use system (not sure yet) create sub enviroments of os, got attribute can run without root, got 1 account can sudo , once sudo access denied there no other way login root. can repermit sudo access parent os layer.

maybe virtual server that. or maybe kind of rootjail.

think?

i think if use 8 letter/symbol password, that's,

26+26+10+12 = 74

74^8 = 899194740203776 possible passwords.

@ 3 seconds each (the default time between allowed tries) thats,

85539834 years of trying. if hit right password @ 50% through,

that's still 45 million years. paraphrase clint eastwood, "go ahead, brute force me".

, hope don't have 9+ letter password.

no need other weirdness. if sitting @ machine have root access anyway. encrypted home protection that.


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