{"id":334,"date":"2025-12-08T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:56:45","slug":"lab-5-password-cracking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/lab-5-password-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 5: Password Cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40030\/2025\/12\/Jimmy-Benjamin_-CYSE-270-Lab-5-Password-Cracking.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Jimmy-Benjamin_-CYSE-270-Lab-5-Password-Cracking.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-eb8b6dee-53e2-4c5c-93a7-4f3b1a077d26\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40030\/2025\/12\/Jimmy-Benjamin_-CYSE-270-Lab-5-Password-Cracking.pdf\">Jimmy-Benjamin_-CYSE-270-Lab-5-Password-Cracking<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40030\/2025\/12\/Jimmy-Benjamin_-CYSE-270-Lab-5-Password-Cracking.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-eb8b6dee-53e2-4c5c-93a7-4f3b1a077d26\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our fifth lab was focused on password cracking.  We first created 6 users (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">userad<\/span>d<\/strong>) and passwords (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">passwd<\/span><\/strong>) for each one using the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">sudo<\/span><\/strong> command, later creating a hash and utilizing a password cracking tool.  Sudo <em>allows the main user<\/em> to execute commands as <em>another<\/em> user to modify or manage system services.  A hash is used for password encryption, which we created for our users, then we ran the <em>John the Ripper<\/em> tool for 10 minutes to observe what could be cracked.  The only thing cracked was my first user (user1) and its password (lucky).  This was a fun lab that displayed how encryption protects data and the importance of creating strong passwords to decrease risks.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fifth lab was focused on password cracking. We first created 6 users (useradd) and passwords (passwd) for each one using the sudo command, later creating a hash and utilizing a password cracking tool. Sudo allows the main user to execute commands as another user to modify or manage system services. A hash is used&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/lab-5-password-cracking\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31459,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jimmy-benjamin-cybersecurity-e-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}