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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 06:18:24 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: cracking application (non-OS) passwords (was: Query on John the Ripper tool)
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:51:52PM +0530, V, Bharath (Bharath) wrote:
> We are planning to use John the ripper tool to crack the passwords of our
> Solaris machines. Apart from that we are also planning to use this tool for
> cracking our application passwords.
> Can this tool be used for cracking any applications apart from OS logins.
This was not the intent of the officially released versions of John the
Ripper, however the really short answer to your question is - "yes, in
some cases". In particular:
1. If an application re-uses the same password hashing method that an
operating system supported by John uses, then you can use John to crack
password hashes produced by that application. The most common scenario
would be a Unix application using the crypt(3) function to hash its
users' passwords. You only need to generate an /etc/passwd-like file
with the usernames (or any identifiers) and the corresponding password
hashes, separating these two fields with a colon, one user:hash pair
per line. Then you can feed the file to John as usual.
2. A number of other password hashing methods, including those specific
to some applications, are supported with the contributed patches. You
can find a list of the patches on the John the Ripper homepage:
http://www.openwall.com/john/
To use these, you need to apply the appropriate patch(es) to the source
code of John, compile it, and then run it on a passwd-like file with
your application's password hashes.
For example, many "web applications" (website "engines", forums, etc.
typically written in PHP) misuse raw MD5 for hashing registered users'
passwords. There is a contributed patch to support these hashes.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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