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by **wa..** » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00

From the Crack 4.1 docs:

In a similar vein, when a Crack run terminates normally, it writes out to
the feedback file all encrypted passwords that it has NOT succeeding in
cracking. Crack will then ignore all of these passwords next time you run it.

This functionality does not seem to exist in 5.0 and I found no mention
of it being removed or how you might gain this functionality. Has this
truly been removed? This was very handy, can it be simulated?

Wayne

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Wayne E. Beech
University of Kentucky Computing Center
Senior Systems Programmer

by **Joerg Schumach** » Wed, 20 Aug 1997 04:00:00

[...]

Quote:> This was very handy, can it be simulated?

Yes. Someone posted a workaround proposed by Alec Muffett:

: Yes, unless you "sort" the passwd file and save it:
:
: sort oldpwfile > old
:
: Then when you next want to check passwords:
:
: sort newpwfiles > new
: comm -13 old new > tmp
: mv new old
: Crack tmp
:
: - not so hard, eh?

Hope this helps,
Joerg.

by **wa..** » Thu, 21 Aug 1997 04:00:00

Schumacher) writes:

> [...]
> > This was very handy, can it be simulated?

> Yes. Someone posted a workaround proposed by Alec Muffett:

> : Yes, unless you "sort" the passwd file and save it:
> :
> : sort oldpwfile > old
> :
> : Then when you next want to check passwords:
> :
> : sort newpwfiles > new
> : comm -13 old new > tmp
> : mv new old
> : Crack tmp
> :
> : - not so hard, eh?

> Hope this helps,
> Joerg.

BUT... If you are running a network crack, then you have to deal manually
with things such as which copies ran to completetion if some where
interrupted, etc. Just because they have the same password as before
doesnt mean the password should not still be examined.

wayne

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