Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:36:31 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com> Subject: Re: Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKS Message-ID: <200402172036.i1HKaVEd022915@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> <20040217192648.GA2209@schweikhardt.net>
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In message <20040217192648.GA2209@schweikhardt.net>, Jens Schweikhardt writes: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:15:40PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > # In message <6.0.1.1.2.20040217204419.01e2a170@213.30.158.180>, Laurent > # LEVIER w > # rites: > # > Hi Gentlemen, > # > > # > It is really a brute force attack tool to obtain passwords. > # > A password cracker (as Crack, John the Ripper, ...) but oriented to work > # > over the network. > # > > # > Hydra does password cracking against SMB (Windows), telnet, POP/IMAP, FTP > , .. > # > . > # > It does dictionnary attacks as simple password generation algorithms. > # > > # > I use that in my company to evaluate passwords quality when I am not > # > granted to crack the passwords directly from the box. > # > If I succeed, bad point for the box owner ;-) > # > # Should I commit the following patch to correct the wording? > > [s/Bruce/Brute] > > I'd say yes. While googling turns up some "bruce force" password > cracker tools, the unpacked hydra port turns up nothing when grepped with > > hydra/work/hydra-2.2 # find . -type f|xargs egrep -i bruce I will commit once I receive Laurent's (maintainer's) approval. Cheers, -- Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca . cy@FreeBSD.org http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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