15 years ago, when I was working as a firewall engineer and penetration tester, I was asked a few times to crack or reset the passwords of systems where ex admi

15 years ago, when I was working as a firewall engineer and penetration tester, I was asked a few times to crack or reset the passwords of systems where ex administrators refused to hand them over. It was usually very easy to do, because the people refusing to hand over the passwords weren't really that competent in the first place, hence why they got fired.