Re: Passwords

[Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com>]

вт, 17 янв. 2023 г. в 11:01, David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com>:

> I have forgotten my password to a Debian PC using an SD stick as it's
> main drive.

> Looking on the internet it says the passwords are stored in /etc/passwd
> and /etc/shadow

 In /etc/shadow only password's hashes, some data, one-way calculated
from password string.

> The password string in /etc/shadow looks as if it's encoded, how can I
> read this string?

You can't.
But you can set new password, if you boot from live-usb/live-cd, mount
your system to dir and run `chroot dir && passwd $user`

-- 
Stanislav