OSX Gather Autologin Password as Root
Description
This module will steal the plaintext password of any user on the machine with autologin enabled. Root access is required. When a user has autologin enabled (System Preferences -> Accounts), OSX stores their password with an XOR encoding in /private/etc/kcpassword.
Author(s)
- joev <joev@metasploit.com>
Platform
OSX
Development
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