Re: Determine Salt used by MySQL in root'd server

cp77fk4r <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Try to look in the source of the login page, or in some config file
that included to it.

On Sunday, June 12, 2011, Voulnet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello folks, I'm doing a pentest on a server, and I got root access
> through a Joomla web app, I got a dump of the jp_users table in MySQL,
> however the passwords are obviously hashed and salted. I honestly
> don't expect the passwords to be strong, so they can be bruteforced,
> md5-looked up easily. However, how can I determine the salt value? I
> already have root access on the server but I don't know where to look
> in MySQL to find the salt value.
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