Re: [techtalk] Using Crack 5.0

1999-11-29 Thread Robert Kiesling
Hi, What Crack is doing is creating word dictionaries the first time you try to run it. That way, on later executions, it will not need to re-hash all of the words or character combinations that it would have to create the first time, thus cutting down the time it takes to ``guess'' the passwor

[techtalk] Using Crack 5.0

1999-11-29 Thread subb3
I have downloaded the latest Crack 5.0. When I run, $ Crack /etc/passwd or $ Crack /etc/shawdow I get lots of output, that seem to suggest, it is trying to do some "make". Here is the tail end of the output. === make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/too