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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: crack for freebsd
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199509200555.HAA03406@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Sep 20, 95 07:55:38 am
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Mark Murray writes:
> 
> > Hi
> > can someone please tell me --
> > 
> > Is there a version of crack somewhere which knows how to handle the
> > current FreeBSD encryption algorithms.
> > 
> > I would like to be able to check for dumb user passwords.
> 
> Any version of crack will work, as long as you link against FreeBSD's
> -lcrypt. This libriary is a link to the current encryption scheme, so
> upgrading libcrypt  MD5 -> DES will be transparent to all apps (including
> crack).
> 

Crack does not parse master.passwd correctly either.  Mail me if
you would like the modified parser.  I don't have diffs.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering