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Not authenticated then the user's old password must be specified. Interactive node) then you can simply specify a new password. Specifying the -u and -P flags or by using the auth command when in If you are authenticated to the node (either by Usage: passwd user_path Ĭhanges a password for a user. Hi, we have posted a response to clear up some of the bad reporting related to the dscl command line tool. $ dscl localhost -passwd /Search/Users/bobĪnd voilà ! You will be prompted to enter a new password without the need to authenticate. So, in order to change the password of the currently logged in user, simply use:

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Now, if the password is not found by the dictionary file you're out of luck, right? Well, no! Why crack hashes when you can just change the password directly! It appears Directory Services in Lion no longer requires authentication when requesting a password change for the current user. To simplify the cracking of these hashes I have created a simple python script which can be downloaded here. All users on the system, regardless of privilege, have the ability to access the ShadowHashData attribute from any other user's profile.ĭue to Lions relatively short time on the market, I am yet to find any of the major crackers supporting OS X Lion hashes (SHA512 + 4-byte salt). The interesting thing about this? root privileges are not required. This ShadowHashData attribute actually contains the same hash stored in user bob's shadow. For more information on these hashes please see this thread. Note: The SHA512 hash is stored from bytes 32-96 (green) and the salt is stored from bytes 28-31(red). If we invoke a a directory services listing on user bob by specifying the /Local/ path we can see bob's standard profile information: This is accomplished by extracting the data straight from Directory Services. Whilst non-root users are unable to access the shadow files directly, Lion actually provides non-root users the ability to still view password hash data. It appears in the redesign of OS X Lion's authentication scheme a critical step has been overlooked. So for all modern OS X platforms (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion) each user has their own shadow file (hash database) whose data is accessible only by the root user… or at least it should be. For the unfamiliar, a shadow file is that which can only be accessed by users with a high privilege (typically root). As mentioned above, all OS X versions are using shadow files. The interesting thing when it comes to Lion's implementation, however, is privilege. plist file located in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/. Each user has their own shadow file, with each shadow file stored under a. When it comes to Lion, the general premise is the same (albeit a few technical differences). In previous versions of OS X (10.6, 10.5, 10.4) the process to extract user password hashes has been the same: obtain the user's GeneratedUID and then use that ID to extract hashes from a specific user's shadow file (See my previous post for a more detailed description). However, during my research I discovered something interesting about OS X Lion that I'd like to share. Typically, I would have just updated the existing article without the need for a new post.

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Since the release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) in July, I have received numerous requests for an update. Whilst this post has been quite popular, it was written for OS X 10.6 and prior. In 2009 I posted an article on Cracking Mac OS X passwords.

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For further details on this security update please see Apple's advisory. Users running OS X Lion 10.7.2 or security update 2011-006 are no longer affected by the vulnerabilities detailed below (CVE-2011-3435 and CVE-2011-3436). The issues described in this post have now been resolved by Apple.

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