Five Linux Cool Tricks

1. Download a website

Here is a simple way to download a whole website without actually visiting all the pages. First up all go into the directory you wish to download the whole website using the command line and type in the following

wget-r-p-k-E http://www.example.com/dir/

Note -E is to create .html extensions to XHTML or text files. Omit if not needed.It is however not possible for all type of sites :-)

2. Five ways to logout from bash

1.logout
2.exit
3.CTRL+d
4.export TMOUT=1
5 kill -9 $
Dont use the fifth one when you are the root since it will kill some essential processes.

3. To change the root password

The first step is to reboot the system. When grub loads up, move the arrow key up/down to highlight and select the Linux kernel and press e to edit the GRUB commands before booting.

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Recover / Unlock Forgotten Vista Admin Password

If you have misplaced a Microsoft CD Key, it can be got back easily by utilizing the free tools which can go deep into your registry files. But if your Windows Vista Password is lost, or you are not able to unlock admin access to your Vista system, then you may be little worried. But relax, even this can be solved through some essential help lines and tools [free tools, naturally.] the only thing you have to so s to be assured to follow the instructions carefully. Also note that some of the tools may not restore your Windows Vista Password, but they will definitely help you set up a different password on your system.

Usually, to reset the admin login password on Vista, Microsoft has its particular set of PStools and they are specially used for this. Downloaded and extracted the PStools will help you reset Windows Vista Password or in some cases, you may need to change the admin password as a whole. This is very helpful for all the local systems and remote multiple systems.

Often, you may need to have an official tool that can unlock, recover Vistas password for you.

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Open Password Protected Excel Documents

We are often advised to password protect our files which contain sensitive information. But the use of strong passwords makes it more difficult to remember and has its own inconveniences. So what happens if we forget the password to those files we had backed up few months before. Is there any ways to open a password protected microsoft excel file without knowing its password. The answer to this is simply, YES.


How to open password protected Microsoft Excel documents without knowing its actual password


There are two ways to open a password protected MS excel file, either by decrypting the entire excel file or by recovering the original password. These two process can be easily done by following the steps provided in this excel password recovery article. I’ll summarize the steps in a simple way below.

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Recover Adobe PDF Documents Password

PDF cracker is an utility tool that removes all the security constrictions and rules on a PDF document. It can easily encrypt all the password protected PDF files without any hassles. This is one of the most vital tools used for sharing private and sensitive data only with the intended online users. This is best used by legitimate owner or the recipient who forgets the password to gain access through the file. Thus, in such times of urgency, this is the best tool to crack the password of any PDF document.

PDF cracker has been specially designed to serve the legitimate purpose. The internet today is loaded with countless PDF recovery or password cracking tools. There are numerous PDF recovery tools, which are designed for unlocking PDF documents. However, among them PDF cracker is the most feasible tools. This is the best binary version of free PDF crack utility tool compatible with Linux.

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Auto Login Windows Vista/7 Without Login Prompt and Password

Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 have the option for multiple user accounts, and it shows you a user welcome screen after resuming session or a fresh bootup. But this login prompt might be annoying if you are the only one using that computer. So if you want to auto login into windows vista/7 without a welcome screen and password prompt, just do these steps.

How To Auto Login Windows Vista/7 without Welcome screen and login prompt

1)Click Start

2)Type netplwiz and press enter.

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Online Password Manager for Chrome, Firefox and IE

If you looking for an online password manager which supports almost all the popular browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari then try out Lastpass. With this free online password manager, the login details like username and password which you have already stored in Firefox can now be easily (and securely) accessed in Chrome, Opera, and on my iPod with a simple little button.

Features and Performance


Lastpass performs well in capturing passwords from ajax forms which other browsers fail to do so.
Allows you to import from every major password storage vendor and export too.
Create strong and different passwords for all sites (you only have to remember one).
Mobile access at http://m.lastpass.com

Security (most important part)

Passwords are locally encrypted and stored on your PC with AES, then uploaded to allow syncing with other computers or browsers. Only your LastPass password can unlock your data.

Install LastPass, Firefox addon

Resetting a Forgotten Password in UBUNTU

It happens to everyone. You have so many usernames and passwords that you can't remember them all. Fortunately, Facebook, Gmail, and about a billion other online services have a "forgot password" link. Just click it and the web service will either email your password to you or allow you to reset it and enter a new one. But what happens when you forget the password for your operating system. While you might think the easiest thing to do is reinstall Ubuntu, (after all, this is a clean install so it's not like we'd be losing any data on our hypothetical system), you can save yourself 15-30 minutes by changing the password. It turns out you don't have login to change your password. As we discovered thanks to a useful post on the Ubuntu forums, you can do it from the bootloader screen. Check out the 5 easy steps after the jump. 1. Turn on your computer, and as soon as you the Press Esc to enter grub message, press the escape key. 2. Select the option that says (recovery mode). 3. Your PC will boot into a shell. Once you get a command prompt, type passwd username where the username is your username. If you can't remember this, then you can type ls /home which should bring it up. 4. Enter a new password when prompted, and again when prompted again 5. Type shutdown -r now to reboot your system. That's it. You should now be able to login with your shiny new password.

To password protect a folder in Linux

Use the zip command: zip -e -r "name_of_the_new_zip_file" "path_of_the_folder_which_has_to_be_protected" Example: If you want to protect a folder named "old" in your desktop. Just do it... zip -e -r /home/gautam/Desktop/new /home/gautam/Desktop/old [gautam@gautam-home ~]$ zip -e -r /home/gautam/Desktop/new /home/gautam/Desktop/old Enter password: Verify password: This will create a zip file named "new.zip" in your desktop (new.zip). After that delete the folder "old".

Convert a Guest account into an Admin

Convert a Guest account into an Admin? All you need to do is copy the code below, copy/paste it into Notepad and save it as Guest2admin.bat on your desktop. echo off title Please wait... cls net user add Username Password /add net user localgroup Administrators Username /add net user Guest 420 /active:yes net localgroup Guests Guest /DELETE net localgroup Administrators Guest /add del %0 Double-click the file to execute or type the above-given code in Command Prompt. Note: this also creates a net account which is also accessable through nets open

Unlock the supersecret Administrator account in Vista

Deep inside the bowels of Windows Vista, there's a secret Administrator account, and it's different from the normal administrator account you most likely have set up on your PC. This Administrator account is not part of the Administrator group. (Confused yet? You should be.) It's a kind of superadministrator, akin to the root account in Unix, and by default it's turned off and hidden. (In describing this hack, we'll always use the capital "A" for the secret Administrator account, and a lowercase "a" for a normal administrator account.) In versions of Windows before Windows Vista, the Administrator account wasn't hidden, and many people used it as their main or only account. This Administrator account had full rights over the computer. In Windows Vista, Microsoft changed that. In Vista, the Administrator account is not subject to UAC, but normal administrator accounts are. So the Administrator can make any changes to the system and will see no UAC prompts. Turning on the Administrator account is straightforward. First, open an elevated command prompt by typing cmd into the Search box on the Start menu, right-clicking the command prompt icon that appears at the top of the Start menu, then selecting Run as administrator -- or just use the shortcut you created in the previous hack. Then enter this command and press Enter: Net user administrator /active:yes From now on, the Administrator account will appear as an option on the Welcome screen, along with any user accounts you may have set up. Use it like any other account. Be aware that it won't have a password yet, so it's a good idea to set a password for it. If you want to disable the account and hide it, enter this command at an elevated command prompt and press Enter: Net user administrator /active:no

How to Hack into a Windows XP computer without changing password

How to Hack into a Windows XP computer without changing Password There is a far better way to get into Windows XP. It is easy and it does not reset the password. Hack into a computer running windows XP without changing the password and find out all and any passwords on the machine (including admin accounts). You do not need access to any accounts to do this. Of course, do not do this on anyone elses computer without proper authorisation. Steps to Hack into a Windows XP Computer without changing password: 1. Get physical access to the machine. Remember that it must have a CD or DVD drive. 2. Download DreamPackPL from Official website or from Rapidshare. 3. Unzip the downloaded dreampackpl_iso.zip and you'll get dreampackpl.ISO. 4. Use any burning program that can burn ISO images. 5. After you have the disk, boot from the CD or DVD drive. You will see Windows 2000 Setup and it will load some files. 6. Press "R" to install DreamPackPL. 7. Press "C" to install DreamPackPL by using the recovery console. 8. Select the Windows installation that is currently on the computer (Normally is "1" if you only have one Windows installed) 9. Backup your original sfcfiles.dll by typing: "ren C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll sfcfiles.lld" (without quotes) 10. Copy the hacked file from CD to system32 folder. Type: "copy D:\i386\pinball.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\sfcfiles.dll" (without quotes and assuming your CD drive is D:) 11. Type "exit", take out disk and reboot. 12. In the password field, type "dreamon" (without quotes) and DreamPack menu will appear. 13. Click the top graphic on the DreamPack menu and you will get a menu popup. How to Hack Into a Windows XP Computer Without Changing Password - www.crack$hack.ws 14. Go to commands and enable the options and enable the god command. How to Hack Into a Windows XP Computer Without Changing Password - www.crack$hack.ws 15. Type "god" in the password field to get in Windows. You can also go to Passwords and select "Logon with wrong password and hash". This option allows you to login with ANY password. Note: We were unable to bring up the DreamPackPL for the first time because we have Kaspersky Anti-Virus already running in background. We believe most antivirus already labelled this tool as a Hack-Tool. A Hack-Tool is NOT a virus. DreamPackPL helps you bypass the Windows Login screen and it is not destructive. Credits: Brian Lee

Crack into admin a/c from limited account (99.99% works)

Go to cmd prompt type net user press enter after this you will see some names on your screen notedown the name of admin acc then type net user (name of admin acc u want to crack into) * e.g if the name of admin acc is tamag then type net user tamag * then it will ask u for new password enter password of your choice and you got the admin password

To lock a folder in XP

open notpad and copy the following code and save it as lock.bat cls@ECHO OFFtitle Folder Lockerif EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCKif NOT EXIST porno goto MDLOCKER:CONFIRMecho Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)set/p "cho=>"if %cho%==Y goto LOCKif %cho%==y goto LOCKif %cho%==n goto ENDif %cho%==N goto ENDecho Invalid choice.goto CONFIRM:LOCKren porno "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"echo Folder lockedgoto End:UNLOCKecho Enter password to Unlock folderset/p "BAS=>"if NOT %BAS%==type your password here goto FAILattrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" pornoecho Folder Unlocked successfullygoto End:FAILecho Invalid passwordgoto end:MDLOCKERmd pornoecho Locker created successfullygoto End:End

Breaking The XP Password:

In case of user password boot the pc in safemode by pressing the F8 key and then selecting the Safe Mode option. You can now logon as an administrator and XP wont prompt for the password. Incase of an administrator account try rebooting the pc in DOS. access C:\Windows\system32\config\sam . Rename SAM as SAM.mj Now XP wont ask for password next time You Login. OR Go to the cmd prompt . Type net user *. It will list all the users. Again type net user "administrator" or the name of the administrator "name" *. e.g.: net user aaaaaa *(where aaaaaa is the name). It will ask for the password. Type the password and there you are done. Logging In As Administrator: Hold the Ctrl-Alt key and press Del twice. This will bring up the normal login and you can log on as Administrator. To unhide the Administrator account so it does show up: Start Regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList Unhide the Administrator key by giving it a value of 1