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title: Recover Your Lost Password On The Command Line
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date: 2024-07-27T09:43:37+02:00
lastmod: 2024-07-28T05:56:54+0000
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- amateur-radio
- computerstuff
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If you are like me and use many different passwords you may come to that point
when you can't think of a password for a specific service. (or file (zip)).
I usually save most variations of my passwords in a secure file and with a rule
file I can re-create most of the passwords that I have ever used.
And because I do not want to type all the passwords by hand I use tools for this task,
which speeds this whole process up and it costs me minutes (where I can do other things
meanwhile)...
## Create the initial password file
I only use lower letters because I will punch that file through rules later that will
automatically make some letters uppercase, add some numbers to it et cetera...
~~~
password
otherpassword
~~~
Let these be our initial password file with the initial password that we use.
## The rule file
Now create a rule file that will do most of the work by modifying the lines
from our initial password file.
~~~
## take it as it is, toggle first character to uppercase or lowercase, uppercase all characters
:
T0
u
## append/prepend something to the password itself
$!
$1 $2 $3
$3 $2 $1
$m $i $n $e
^y ^m
^i
^i T1
^0
^0 T1
~~~
So if you tend to finish your weak passwords with `12shark`, you may want to add this to
your ruleset as `$1 $2 $s $h $a $r $k`.
Now every line from your password file gets appended with `12shark`.
## Line counts
~~~console
$ wc -l *
154 list.best64.txt
68196 list.d3ad0ne.txt
24 list.simple.txt
2 pwlist.txt
15 simple.rule
~~~
So our initial password file contains 2 words (2 lines), the modified new password list
based on our own ruleset contains 24 lines (passwords).
And the other two files (_best64_ and _d3ad0ne_) were made with some default rules from a
tool called [john](https://www.openwall.com/john/).
As you can see the wide-known ruleset _best64_ created 154 passwords from it and the
more enhanced rule _d3ad0ne_ created 68196 passwords from our 2 words.
## What the output looks like
Using our own ruleset from above, we get these combinations:
~~~
password
Password
PASSWORD
password!
password123
password321
passwordmine
mypassword
ipassword
iPassword
0password
0Password
otherpassword
Otherpassword
OTHERPASSWORD
otherpassword!
otherpassword123
otherpassword321
otherpasswordmine
myotherpassword
iotherpassword
iOtherpassword
0otherpassword
0Otherpassword
~~~