On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:36, Ivan Roseland wrote: > > Yes, it is called brute force. > > John the ripper might help > > > http://www.openwall.com/john/ > > > If its a good password though it could take a very long time to crack > the password. > > Ivan
You know I have always been curious about this so I just dled john from the link given and it go the first two test passwds in less thatn a second. mine an root's are the only other accounts on this machine and it is sure chewing the cpu but no joy yet. I am looking forward to seeing how long it takes. Thanks for bringing this up. 13 minutes of cpu time and counting. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
