are you just using the shadow file?
to crack it with john you have to correlate it with the passwd file.
there should be a tool in your john directory, which is called unshadow.
so safe the shadow and passwd from the machine and do the following:
unshadow passwd.txt shadow.txt > tocrack.txt
then tocrack.txt can be cracked by john
hope that helps.
cheers,
frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherwyn Williams" <sherwill22_at_tmail.com>
To: <pen-test_at_securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: Etc/shadow file and john
>I am doing an assesment for passwords on a network, after getting the
> password file I piped the output to a text file, tried to run that
> against John and can't get any luck with the program. Do anyone here
> uses any other password programs, and is there a better format than a
> text file to store the out of the etc/shadow when trying to get the
> passes.
> Sherwyn Williams
> Technical Consultant
> Sherwill22_at_tmail.com
>
Received on Jul 28 2005
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