how to retrieve the human readable vnc password 1, get the password. 2 way . a, run vncview on sam and look at /usr/local/lib/vncpass/$server/$username <-- it is a encoded password . b, goto the server find the user look in to the user home dir .vnc/ . its either under .vnc/passwd . or under .vnc/condig.d/Xvnc <<-- this is the hex representation of the endoced password run sed -e 's/../\\x&/g' to convert it back to binary data 2 decode the password . run vncrack -C follow by the file that contain the binary vnc encoded password