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Joe account Scanner
#!/usr/bin/env python
# joescan.py -By Ryan Kulla
# I wrote this in ~1999 as one of my first python programs
# Scans for user accounts who use their username as their password.
from crypt import crypt
from pwd import getpwall, getpwnam
from getpass import getuser
PASSWD_FILE = getpwall()
def get_total_entries():
total_entries = 0
for total_entries in range(len(PASSWD_FILE)):
if PASSWD_FILE[total_entries] == "":
break
return total_entries
def display_start_message(total_entries):
print 'Scans for "joe" accounts',
print '(accounts with the same username and password.)'
raw_input('Hit Enter to scan the [%d] accounts found on this system' % total_entries)
def check_if_shadowed():
cryptedpasswd = getpwnam(getuser())[1]
if cryptedpasswd in ('x', '*'):
raise NotImplementedError("Currently no support for shadow passwords")
def scan(total_entries):
found_joe = False
i = 0
while True:
user = PASSWD_FILE[i][0]
password = PASSWD_FILE[i][1]
cryptedpasswd = crypt(user, password)
if cryptedpasswd == password:
found_joe = True
print '\n"%s" is a joe.' % user
i = i + 1
if i >= total_entries + 1:
break
if not found_joe:
print "\nNo Joe accounts were found.\n"
if __name__=='__main__':
total_entries = get_total_entries()
display_start_message(total_entries)
check_if_shadowed()
scan(total_entries);
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