UGN Security Forums UGN Security: Underground General read only password file

hi my frinds and i were trying to crack my OWN password the other day using my friends lap top. well we were doing good, but the folder the password is in is read only... what do i do now?

what OS?

That's not a problem. If you can read the file, you can load it into your password cracker, and then run it. If your program is trying to write to that directory, just change the output file to somewhere you have write-access to.

i am running windows xp (booo) and i am cracking it on the lap top using fedora (yay).

okay i am still trying to get my password but i am using a usb thumb drive cuz the system file wont fit on a floppy... but... i cant find the thumb drive in knoppix (i switched to a bootable version of knoppix) can some one help me out...please

you have to mount the usb drive. I it is either in the /dev folder or the /media folder (suse) depending on if you have a newer version of knoppix that has the driver for the usb thumb drive.

okay when i go into the /dev folder there is a folder for USB. is that it? do i jsut drag the ststem file in to that?

The command you need to use is called "mount" But I guess you might be able to do it some other way in Fedora. You could also try right-clicking on the password folder and un-checking the "read-only" box (in Windows).

I seriously don't see what the problem is, just copy the file. or jus do it in KDE if you don't know the commands.

mount "path of thumbdrive"
cp "path of file" "path of thumbdrive"