Questions tagged [password-recovery]
For information on retrieving or resetting passwords
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Rar Password Unlocker crashing with rockyou
I am trying to use Rar Password Unlcoker with the Rockyou dictionary to unlock a file. Unlocker works with smaller dictionaries and brute force. As soon as I use the 140MB Rockyou list however I get ...
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Is there a way to get my old passwords from the Have I Been Pwned website?
I have an old device I am trying to get access to but I have forgotten my password.
I would like to try my pwned passwords that are in the Have I Been Pwned database.
Is there a way to get my old ...
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Windows 10 upgrade OK but asks for password
I have allowed my laptop to upgrade to windows 10 using the automatic unattended method, When I returned to the machine it seemed to be finished Ok but it immediatly asked me for a password in the ...
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Ban a stolen device from Firefox Sync
I have my Firefox Passwords synced to my android tablet device.
Now that device got stolen, and I am not sure, if i had really set a masterpassword on the stored passwords there. Can I somehow delete ...
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Windows 8 Login Password Out of Sync with Windows Live ID
I'm working with a computer that has setup a local account connected under Windows Live ID. The user can login to Live ID (like hotmail) from another computer with the correct credentials. However ...
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Is 25p/s a normal speed for JtR?
I usually encrypt documents I create and store their password in a file. But when I wanted to access one of my Office-PowerPoint files .pptx, realized that I forgot to save its password.
The only ...
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Check password of large 7zip file quickly
I have a large 7zip file which I forgot the password to.
I can narrow down the password possibilities to a word list with about 2000 passwords.
Only problem is, that it takes ages for each password ...
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Unusual behaviour with a passworded rar being invalid password in winrar but falsely accepted in 7zip
I found an old .rar file on my computer but I couldn't remember the password exactly. I had a rough idea of what it was, so I wrote a program using 7ziplib in c# to brute force a bunch of permutations....
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Is it possible to reset the macOS user password via root without old password?
I need to change user password on macOS without knowing old password. I tried to use:
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/user
But got error:
Permission denied. Please enter user's old password:
Could you ...
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Recover Windows 10 password when encryption is used
I managed to forget my Windows 10 user password. I searched here, but most answers refer to solution when no encryption is present.
The problem I have is that I have standard Windows encryption ...
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Lost Administrator Password of a HP Pro X2 612 G1 with 64-bit Windows 8.1 installed
I've just bought a HP Pro x2 G1 and only have the user name and password.
I am trying to update and download new drivers but can't because it keeps asking for the admin name and password. The user ...
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Linux account locked due to failed logins
i hope someone could help me
while trying login to my Ubuntu machine with my user i'm getting "account locked due to 29 failed"
i logged in with recovery mode and now i'm root
but i can't change ...
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Password Recovery from Router without Reset
Background Story: Previous Technician for a small business set up a network for a customer. The Technician went AWOL (The small business owner is a close friend, and I knew the previous technician as ...
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Need help mounting device : mount -t ntfs-3g mount failed: No such device
I'm using ophcrack-vista-livecd-3.4.0.iso on Windows 7 to recover a password. When I tried using the software, I got a message saying "Tables Found" along with another message saying "No partition ...
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Recover saved passwords from 2018 version of Firefox
I have an old Firefox profile copied from an old PC, which was last in use in 2018. As far as I can tell, Firefox was at version 64 at the time.
Various resources talk about creating a new Firefox ...
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