john-users - Re: Possible to set min. password size?

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Message-ID: <20050515194742.37508.qmail@web60713.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 12:47:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Whom Ever <amwhoever@...oo.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com, jbdive@...dspring.com
Subject: Re: Possible to set min. password size?

--- James <jbdive@...dspring.com> wrote:
>  If you know passwords are at least 8 characters
> long is it possible to set
> JTR to start at 8 and move up?
>  

[Incremental:All]
File = $JOHN/all.chr
MinLen = 0
MaxLen = 16
CharCount = 95 

I'm new to John, but I think all you need to do is
adjust the MinLen setting in john.conf (later
versions) or john.ini (earlier versions).  This will
be found in the Incremental:YOURCHOICE section(s).

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