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Hunting Down Sensitive Files

Finding Files Containing Passwords#

Find all files in a directory which contain "pass" or "password", ignoring case:

grep --color=auto -rnw '<dir>' -ie "password\|pass" --color=always 2>/dev/null

![[res/find_pass_password.png]]

Find all files in a directory which contain "pass" or "password" in their name, ignoring case:

find / -name "*pass*" 2>/dev/null

![[res/find_pass_password_in_name.png]]

Finding SSH Keys#

find / -name id_rsa 2>/dev/null

![[res/find_ssh_keys.png]]