With Hydra you can recover your SSH credentials. Here a tiny tutorial how it works.

Installation

I do install via ports but also different other possibilities are available.

# update macports (optional)
$ sudo port selfupdate

# search port (optional)
$ port search hydra

# check dependencies (optional)
$ port rdeps hydra

# install port
$ sudo port install hydra

Test preparation

Now create two files (or download anywhere)

# create password file
$ vim passwords.txt

# create users file
$ vim users.txt

Create some content (by line) and start the ssh brute-force with Hydra.

Run SSH password recover

# use password.txt only
$ hydra -l root -P passwords.txt <target> ssh

# use user.txt only
$ hydra -L users.txt -p 12345 <target> ssh

# use user and password files
$ hydra -L users.txt -P passwords.txt <target> ssh

If Hydra found something, the message looks like:

[22][ssh] host: <target> login: <user> password: <password>

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