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bionic (8) Crack.8.gz

Provided by: crack-common_5.0a-11build1_all

NAME

Crack, Reporter - programs to break password files

SYNOPSIS

Crack [options] [-fmt format] [file ...]


Crack-Reporter [-quiet] [-html]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the Crack, and Crack-Reporter comma
page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the origin
not have a manual page. Instead, there is some documentati
/usr/share/doc/crack which you are encouraged to read

Crack is not a program designed to break the password of every user in th


it is designed to find weak passwords in the file, by attacking t
passwords which are most likely to be used, in the order in which they wo
be found (ie: are most likely to be used by a moronic user).

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Crack is not designed to break user passwords; it is designed to brea


This is a subtle but important distinction.

Crack-Reporter will show what passwords have been cracked, as well as v


have been detected in the source password files, etc. Guesses are listed
so users who wish to see incremental changes in the output as Crack conti
a course of days or weeks, are encouraged to wrap invocations of Cr
script with diff.

OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below. For Crack:

-makedict
Creates and compresses the dictionaries Crack will use

-makeonly
Compiles the binaries for Crack (not necessary for Debian GNU/Linu
already provided)

-debug Lets you see what the Crack script is doing.

-recover
Used when restarting an abnormally-terminated run; suppresses rebu
derived dictionaries.

-fgnd Runs the password cracker in the foreground, with stdin, stdout an
to the usual places.

-fmt format
Specifies the input file format.

-from N
Starts password cracking from rule number "N".

-keep Prevents deletion of the temporary file used to store the password

-mail E-Mail a warning message to anyone whose password is cracked


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nastygram.

-network
Runs the password cracker in network mode.

-nice N
Runs the password cracker at a reduced priority, so that other
priority over the CPU.

-kill filename

-remote
Internal options used to support networking.

For Crack-Reporter -html Produces output in a fairly basic HTML


-quiet Suppresses the reporting of errors in the password file (
etc)

EXAMPLES

To run Crack

# Crack -nice 10 /etc/passwd

If a Crack session is killed accidentally, it can be restarted with moder


doing:

mv run/Dhostname.N run/tempfilename
Crack -recover -fmt spf run/tempfilename

However if all you wish to do is start cracking passwords from some speci
or to restart a run whilst skipping over a few rulesets, try:

Crack [-recover] -from N filename ...

...where N is the number of the rule to start working from.

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FILES

/usr/share/Crack Location of the Crack program and scripts. /var/lib/Cr


the temporary files used by Crack.

SEE ALSO

You will find more documentation about Crack in the text files
/usr/share/doc/crack-common Documentation includes the program's Manual
files), the User's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), examples, articles
humour.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@deb


Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Crack and Crack-Reporter (originally called Reporter) were written


<[email protected]>

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