Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:46:09 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Andre.Carvalho@megamedia.pt (Andre' Carvalho) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crack freeBSD password file Message-ID: <199602190216.MAA07803@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01BAFE2F.2B225BE0@pc24.megamedia.pt> from "Andre' Carvalho" at Feb 18, 96 06:30:21 pm
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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? > Andre' Esteves de Carvalho -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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