Re: crack 5.0

From: Robert McGraw (rmcgraw_at_math.purdue.edu)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:42:29 -0500

    HUH!

    I just ran ./Crack -fgnd passwordfile so I am not sure what I was running.

    I started searching the manual.txt file and found Crack6 and Crack7 in the
    extra directory but not sure how they work.

    So I assume I was not running the brute force option.

    Thanks

    Robert

    "Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message
    news:10islnfn1890ifb@corp.supernews.com...
    > In article <cgljfv$b3s$1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, Robert McGraw wrote:
    > > I need to get a program that can check our passwords on a Sparc Solaris.
    > >
    > > A long time ago I used a program called Crack and went looking and found
    > > Crack 5.0.
    > >
    > > I untar'ed it in a directory and compiled and it compiled without
    errors.
    > >
    > > I then created an account with a very simple 3 letter password and put
    the
    > > one line password in a local file.
    > >
    > > I then ran Crack -fgnd localpasswdfile
    > >
    > > but it did not detect the simple password and when I ran Report.
    > >
    > > So my questions:
    > >
    > > 1) Crack is a very old program. It there something newer, better, etc.
    that
    > > I should use.
    > >
    > > 2) How can I get Crack to just run some simple test such as a user name
    > > spelled backward, etc? I modified the conf/dictrun.conf file to do this
    but
    > > again I did not find the simple password. Under older versions I thought
    > > there was a parameter to do this.
    > >
    > > Thanks
    > >
    > > Robert
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    > Did you run crack using the dictionary or using brute force?
    >
    > Mike

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