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From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: Crack freeBSD password file
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   Hi!

> Andre' Carvalho stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I would like to know if I can use a program like "crack" to try to break =
> > my users' passwords. This is very important because I do not want to =
> > have security holes in this machine.
> > 
> > I tried a lot, but it says that the crypt() function is not standard and =
> > that the encrypted passwords are too long.
> 
> You will have to modify the 'crack' program to understand the longer MD5
> encrypted passwords that FreeBSD uses.  I would expect that this should be
> a relatively straightforward task, but I'm not familiar with 'crack'.
> 
> Anyone else done this already and can supply Andre' with the diffs?

      How do  you want  to crack a   password you can't read? FreeBSD  uses
   shadow passwords only root can read!

   Regards

   Lars


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