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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:35:53 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Eric Allione <ericallione@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Mac OS 10.9.4, John the Ripper Pro] cannot find after install
Hi Eric,
I've refunded your purchase based on your off-list request, but to
answer your questions for others on john-users or reading the archives:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 06:45:01AM -1000, Eric Allione wrote:
> I just purchased John the Ripper Pro along with the word list. After
> clicking the the DMG file and going through the motions, it said it was
> finished installing. However I cannot find any trace of this program on my
> computer. I tried reinstalling it and again it said it was finished
> installing, but it's no where to be found on the search or the application
> list.
It installs under your user account's home directory. This is an
installation mode Mac OS X supports starting with version 10.5. We find
such user-local installation more appropriate for this specialized
application, as opposed to "polluting" the entire system.
In fact, the documentation says:
---
To install the application, double-click the installer application and
follow the prompts. John the Ripper is installed in a directory called
John_Pro in your home directory.
To run the application, double-click on the Run_John AppleScript. This
will open a terminal window with the correct settings, allowing you to
type "john" to run the program and see a list of the command-line
options. Make sure to read the documentation distributed with this
program. The documentation is found in the "doc" subdirectory.
---
> I did not add the word pack (I am not sure how yet). Are there supposed to
> be some commands that work in the terminal now that I installed that DMG
> file?
John the Ripper Pro already includes and is pre-configured to use a
wordlist that is good enough for you to get started. The per-language
wordlists are in case you need to run a more focused attack, e.g.
enabling you to test more variations of words from a certain language in
the same amount of time than you would be able to with the generic
wordlist. There are other uses of this sort as well.
To use a specific wordlist, you'd use either the --wordlist option (and
provide the wordlist filename as parameter) or edit the "Wordlist = "
line in john.conf. This is described in the included documentation.
> I'm a little concerned about what I did to this new Mac server,
No changes to the system have been made. This is one of the reasons why
we prefer those user-local installs.
> aside from whether I wasted $100
You did not: we offer unconditional refunds.
Best regards,
Alexander
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