How to crack password of Linux

Dear Reader,

today I am going to share tutorial on "how to crack (find) password of Linux machine. 

for this I already have John the Ripper tool installed in may Kali machine.

if is assumed that you already have Kali machine installed or running in Kali machine.

After Starting Kali machine just Open the terminal from the desktop of Kali:

After opening the terminal  it will look like as below:

Just for the information, all users details of Linux will be saved in "etc/shadow" file while in case of Windows system this file will be stored in %SystemRoot%/system32/config/SAM location (here %systemRoot% will be C drive of system).

so, to crack the password of Linux following command, as per the screenshot can be used:

#john /etc/shadow

in the above output the cracked password is verified by "john --show /etc/shadow" command.

The John and Ripper got scucessed for cracking password for user amit and root. the password can be checked as per the above output.