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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:06:13 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: different formats..

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:58:12AM -0500, Steve ...... wrote:
> Ok, one more question.. will using unshadow crack more passwords

Yes, it may result in more passwords getting cracked during the "single
crack" pass.

> or just speed things up?

It won't speed things up directly - in fact, it may cause JtR to spend
more time in "single crack" mode.  However, if more passwords do get
cracked during "single crack", it may mean that there's less work to do
for subsequent cracking modes, resulting in a slight speedup.

> Im not able to use unshadow on the boxses

You don't need to.  Just copy the passwd and shadow files off those
boxes, then run "unshadow" on whatever system you can run it on.

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