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Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca

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On 12/28/2016 7:08 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I've lost the password to the Software Manager. does anyone know an easy
>> way to find it? for example reading the drive in Windoze and accessing
>> some file? TIA
>
> Sounds like you need the root password if it's asking when you try to
> install software. If sudo is set to skip password checking, you should
> be able to use "sudo passwd root" in a terminal. My memory of Ubuntu
> (from years ago) is that sudo probably requires the root password
> be entered before running, so Grumpy Tech's suggested method is
> probably your best option.
>
> On the system, passwords are stored encrypted. Once upon a time they
> were stored in plain text, but I have to hope that Ubuntu followed
> the rest of the Linux world in moving away from that.
>
AFAIK *nix passwords have always been stored as a one way hash. The 
password file though used to be public. The system relied on the hashing 
method being slow so brute force methods of retrieving passwords were 
expensive however faster methods of hashing have been found so now the 
password files is usually only available to root.

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  Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2016-12-27 12:11 +1000
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    Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-27 13:49 +1100
  Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2016-12-27 13:04 +1000
    Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Grumpy Tech <grumpytech07@gmail.com> - 2016-12-27 13:09 +1000
    Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-27 15:42 +1100
      Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-27 16:24 +1100
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        Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-27 16:41 +1100
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  Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-12-27 21:08 +0000
    Re: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2016-12-30 16:29 +1000
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