08-16-2011
Since you own the machine, you have physical access to the drives.
So, simply mount the disk on another machine and change the password in the password file.
There is no reason to "crack" the machine when you have physical access to the disk drives; just mount the disk on another machine and edit the password file directly.
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cracklib
FascistCheck(3) Debian GNU/Linux manual FascistCheck(3)
NAME
FascistCheck - a pro-active password checker library
SYNOPSIS
#include <crack.h>
static char const CRACKLIB_DICTPATH[] = ...;
extern char const *
FascistCheck(char const passwd[], char const dictpath[]);
DESCRIPTION
cracklib is a library containing the FascistCheck C function which may be used in a "passwd" like program. The idea is simple: try to pre-
vent users from choosing passwords that could be guessed by "crack" by filtering them out, at source. cracklib is an offshoot of the the
version 5 of the "crack" software and contains a considerable number of ideas nicked from the new software.
The first formal argument password is the potential password. The second formal argument dictpath is the full path name + filename prefix
of the cracklib dictionary database. FascistCheck returns the NULL pointer for a good password, or a pointer to a diagnostic string if it
is a weak password.
The database is in a binary format generated by the utilities crack_mkdict(8) and crack_packer(8). On a Debian system the database is
located in the directory defined by the static constant CRACKLIB_DICTPATH and is set to /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict. None of the
subroutines in the cracklib libraries have this location hard-coded into their implementations. It is generated daily with the program
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib.
FILES
/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.[hwm|pwd|pwi]
cracklib dictionary database files used by utilities.
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib
cracklib daily cron program to rebuild the cracklib dictionary database.
/etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf
cracklib configuration file used by the cracklib daily cron program to rebuild the cracklib dictionary database.
/usr/sbin/crack_mkdict
cracklib shell script to create initial list of words for dictionary database.
/usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/examples
Example cc(1) source files that show how FascistCheck is used.
SEE ALSO
crack_teststr(8), crack_mkdict(8), update-cracklib(8)
/usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/examples
/usr/share/doc/cracklib2/cracklib2.html
/usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/cracklib2-dev.html
AUTHOR
cracklib2 is written by Alec Muffett <alecm@crypto.dircon.co.uk>. Manual added by Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>.
2.7-8.5 Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:37:09 +0100 FascistCheck(3)