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Message-Id: <201208291450.05716.john-users_oj@solipsys.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:50:05 +0100
From: colin wright <john-users_oj@...ipsys.co.uk>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Traouble getting started - can anyone offer advice?

Hi everyone,

Before you ask, yes, I've read the FAQ, and I've tried *all* the suggestions 
there.  I'm just wondering if there's something obvious I'm missing, but I 
can't get john to recognise the hashes in the password file I'm using.  I get 
the message:

	No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)

Right, so, some details.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.04, and I've downloaded, compiled, and tested john-1.7.9.  
Here's a complete list of my commands and their output.  I've snipped the 
output from the make, but it seems to make clean, and finished with removal 
of a few binaries and the replacement of them with soft-links.

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$ ll

-rw-r--r-- 1 user user  717505 2012-08-26 22:18 john-1.7.9.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user     353 2012-08-26 22:18 john-1.7.9.tar.bz2.sign

$ gpg --verify john-1.7.9.tar.bz2.sign john-1.7.9.tar.bz2
gpg: Signature made Wed 23 Nov 2011 11:38:48 GMT using RSA key ID 295029F1
gpg: Good signature from "Openwall Project <signatures@...nwall.com>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 0C 29 43 AE 1E CD 24 EA  6E 0C B6 EE F5 84 25 69

$ tar jxf john-1.7.9.tar.bz2
$ cd john-1.7.9/src
$ make clean generic

<snip output>

rm -f ../run/unshadow
ln -s john ../run/unshadow
rm -f ../run/unafs
ln -s john ../run/unafs
rm -f ../run/unique
ln -s john ../run/unique
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/john/john-1.7.9/src'

$ cd ../run
$ ll john

-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 207068 2012-08-29 14:37 john*

$ sudo unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > mypasswd
$ sudo chown user: mypasswd
$ cat mypasswd

games:$6$xVP8GEWX$DoXHX6gHmwGzWIrL42GadRPkRD6e0ovmUql1qjv4X.wAWwYfeq0dQjefd9Ubg7IO7.h1f6U2fyUx4tHwSt5qM.:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh

$ ./john mypasswd

No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)

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I've also tried downloading the "jumbo" version, but the make fails on that, 
and it would be good to get the vanilla version working first anyway.

So,

Help?

Thanks.

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