Monday, 19 September 2011

Cracking OS X Lion Passwords

When it comes to Lion, the general premise is the same (albeit a few technical differences). Each user has their own shadow file, with each shadow file stored under a .plist file located in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/.

The interesting thing when it comes to Lion's implementation, however, is privilege. As mentioned above, all OS X versions are using shadow files. For the unfamiliar

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