Comments on: All your base will belong to you http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/ Memoirs of a QWERTY Keyboard Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:59:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: mehul http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-50392 mehul Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:39:07 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-50392 anomit you can always install it. anomit you can always install it.

]]> By: anomit http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-48522 anomit Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:38:11 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-48522 meh, dowze doesn't have grep meh, dowze doesn’t have grep

]]> By: Rohit http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-47124 Rohit Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:41:18 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-47124 Wow. Wow.

]]> By: Harsh http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46816 Harsh Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:42:03 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46816 On Windows look under Application Data / Purple On Windows look under Application Data / Purple

]]> By: Aditya http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46809 Aditya Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:16:53 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46809 Wow... Nice find Harsh. Only a matter of time before I own my friend's PCs... (Actually only one had linux installed :-( ) Wow… Nice find Harsh. Only a matter of time before I own my friend’s PCs… (Actually only one had linux installed :-( )

]]> By: mehul http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46621 mehul Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:06:56 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46621 prakash encrpying will mangle your password in such a way that no one else can crack it and get your original password, except the application which encrypted it. So, your password is safe. This is in no way related to programming, it's related to basic usage of CLI and regex. Anyone into a bit of system administration would know this. * means all the files matching all alphabets and numbers irrespective of the length *.* - all the files in current directory *cc*.x* - all the files having cc somewhere before the . and x immediately after it harsh, a small correction grep ass ~/.*/*cc*.x* >> my_ass prakash encrpying will mangle your password in such a way that no one else can crack it and get your original password, except the application which encrypted it. So, your password is safe.
This is in no way related to programming, it’s related to basic usage of CLI and regex. Anyone into a bit of system administration would know this.

* means all the files matching all alphabets and numbers irrespective of the length
*.* - all the files in current directory
*cc*.x* - all the files having cc somewhere before the . and x immediately after it

harsh, a small correction
grep ass ~/.*/*cc*.x* >> my_ass

]]> By: Prakash http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46618 Prakash Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:21:11 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46618 Hmm..really interesting.wish you will explain a bit more.encrypting helps?it read both my gmail password and gdm passwd :O programming is "O" with me. :D but it seems some xml conf files that it reads? also ".*/*cc*.x*" explains the wild cards please :) Hmm..really interesting.wish you will explain a bit more.encrypting helps?it read both my gmail password and gdm passwd :O

programming is “O” with me. :D but it seems some xml conf files that it reads?

also “.*/*cc*.x*” explains the wild cards please :)

]]> By: Harsh http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46592 Harsh Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:34:28 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46592 Oh it was long ago, was looking for a way to backup my GAIM aliases I had set for all my contacts (They seemed to go away with a reinstall of the OS, but now they work fine and server-side) and stumbled upon the accounts.xml file. There is a way you can encrypt it, google for pidgin password encryption :) Oh it was long ago, was looking for a way to backup my GAIM aliases I had set for all my contacts (They seemed to go away with a reinstall of the OS, but now they work fine and server-side) and stumbled upon the accounts.xml file. There is a way you can encrypt it, google for pidgin password encryption :)

]]> By: sindhu http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46588 sindhu Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:58:47 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46588 heh i betchya can, so where did ya find this out from? heh i betchya can, so where did ya find this out from?

]]> By: Harsh http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46587 Harsh Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:34:21 +0000 http://www.harshj.com/2008/06/07/all-your-base-will-belong-to-you/#comment-46587 Its a start, I can wreck social life first :P Its a start, I can wreck social life first :P

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