Re: PWDUMP Parser

From: J. Theriault (administrator_at_maginetworks.com)
Date: 07/07/04

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To: Mike Anderson <mike_and@yahoo.com>

    Mike Anderson wrote:
    > Already did some googling on this subject to no avail,
    > so I thought I would start here for an answer.
    >
    > I have a rather large pwdump file (over 3000 accounts)
    > that I am working with. I need to extract
    > approximately 200 user names/hash pairs from it.
    > Other than using notepad/word to do a find/search then
    > copy and paste, does anyone know of a "pwdump parser"
    > that is out there? I envision inputting a user name
    > (or list of user names) and then having it return the
    > user name and hash pair in a text file.
    >
    > Thanks..
    >
    > =====
    > Mike Anderson
    > mike_and@yahoo.com

    Hello, Mike;

    If you have cygwin or a *NIX system available:
    "grep (username) (filename)"

    Or, to make it easier;
    Create a file containing the following one line and put it in the same
    directory as a copy of the pwdump file you want to search through:

    grep $1 <pwdump filename> >> output.txt

    Save it, make it executable (with "chmod 700 <filename>"), and run it
    with the username. It will search for the line with that username and
    hash and add it to a new line of the output file.

    (assuming it's saved as "example" and username we want is anything
    starting with "1")
    [Administrator@belthaserv:~]
    $ ./example 1
    [Administrator@belthaserv:~]
    $ cat output.txt
    123
    12
    1
    [Administrator@belthaserv:~]
    $ ./example 1
    [Administrator@belthaserv:~]
    $ cat output.txt
    123
    12
    1
    123
    12
    1

    Hope that helps,

    J. Theriault
    administrator@maginetworks.com

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