Penetration Testing: /_vti_pvt/users.pwd question

["Robert Bruce" <robert.bruce () anwarcapital com>]

Hi all 

Whilst doing an internal penetration test on our private network, I
picked up the below web file:

+ /_vti_pvt/users.pwd - these contain passwords encrypted with unix
crypt() (GET)

Upon looking in the file I get this value:

QSI8R7k5dLPOE

I put this into a passwd file and ran it against John the Ripper which
detected it as DES encrypted text. I ran DES running for over a week but
it was not able to crack this value?

Any ideas..I am doing something wrong, (PS. I ran it on a 4 CPU powerful
Compaq server).

Cheers
Robert Bruce ESA
Anwar Capital



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