Re: PWDUMP Parser

From: J. Theriault (administrator@maginetworks.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 07:08:27 EDT


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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