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
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.
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/too