We have get /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in the last article Privilege Escalation (Step by Step to get Linux username and Password) in Backtrack 5
Now we try to crack it. The first step is save the two files in txt files. In this case we will save /etc/passwd in pasword.txt and /etc/shadow in shadow.txt.
Then combine the two files by using ./unshadow command.
root@bt:/pentest/passwords/john# ./unshadow pasword.txt shadow.txt >> crack.txt
root@bt:/pentest/passwords/john# ./jhon-mmx crack.txt
The next step is crack the crack.txt using...