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octomagon / davegrohl

A Password Cracker for macOS
http://www.davegrohl.org
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Could not open shadow file. #20

Closed tukangsedot closed 5 years ago

tukangsedot commented 8 years ago

on my macosx 10.11.5 after sudo ./dave -u someuser than "Could not open shadow file "

octomagon commented 8 years ago

In "sudo ./dave -u someuser", make sure "someuser" is the short name of your user. In other words, if you look in /Users, it should exactly match the name of your user's folder.

If it still doesn't work, type this "sudo ls /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users" and make sure there is a .plist file in that folder that matches your value for "someuser".

Generally, if your username is "Boba Fett", the corresponding command would be: sudo ./dave -u bobafett

nippysaurus commented 7 years ago

For what its worth also make sure you are running dave with sudo.

locktight commented 7 years ago

Thanks guys! I'll "measure twice, cut once", following your advise the next time I'm geeking on one of my macs. Kudos!

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For what its worth also make sure you are running dave with sudo.

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