12-29-2008
Well, there's a tool called "John The Ripper", or JTR for short, that can be used to identify weak passwords. However, it requires read access to the password file. If you require going through a program to do what you're trying to do, for ethical reasons, we cannot help.
If you need to recover your system from password lost, you must have physical access to the machine and you can boot off a recovery CD/DVD. Google for "System Rescue linux" or something.
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UNAFS(8) System Manager's Manual UNAFS(8)
NAME
unafs - script to warn users about their weak passwords
SYNOPSIS
unafs password-files cell-name
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the unafs command, which is part of the john package. This manual page was written for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. john, better known as John the Ripper, is a tool to find
weak passwords of users in a server.
The unafs tool gets password hashes out of the binary AFS database, and produces a file usable by John.
SEE ALSO
john(8), mailer(8), unique(8), unshadow(8).
The programs are documented fully by John's documentation, which should be available in /usr/share/doc/john or other location, depending on
your system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
John the Ripper and mailer were written by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>. The complete list of contributors can be found in the CRED-
ITS file in the documentation directory.
john June 03, 2004 UNAFS(8)