# Password Safe Pentesting

Password Save is a password database utility. We may retrieve passwords for users.

### Install PasswordSafe Manager <a href="#install-passwordsafe-manager" id="install-passwordsafe-manager"></a>

Go to the [release page](https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsafe/releases) and download it.

For example, if you use Debian, download `.deb` package and run the following command:

```shellscript
sudo dpkg -i passwordsafe-debian12-x.x-amd64.deb
```

### Analyze `.pwsafe3` file <a href="#analyze-pwsafe3-file" id="analyze-pwsafe3-file"></a>

```shellscript
pwsafe example.pwsafe3
```

### Crack `.pwsafe` Password <a href="#crack-pwsafe-password" id="crack-pwsafe-password"></a>

If the password is required to open `.pwsafe` file in the PasswordSafe manger, we might be able to crack the password of the `.pwsafe` file as below:

```shellscript
pwsafe2john example.pwsafe3 > hash.txt
john --wordlist=wordlist.txt hash.txt
```