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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

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