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[linux-security] Problems running crack on linux.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert R. Collier)
Fri Aug 16 14:12:22 1996
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:21:53 +0100 (BST)
From: "Robert R. Collier" <rob@lspace.org>
I'm having some problems running Crack 4.1 on linux 2.0.
I've given out quite a lot of accounts on my machine over the last
year or so, and I want to check how secure they are. A task fro crack
I thought.
So I downloaded crack, edited the Crack shell script and
Sources/conf.h as appropriate, and then tried running crack.
Whatever I do I get this:
--8<--8<--
pwc: Aug 16 16:11:12 Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992
pwc: Aug 16 16:11:12 Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard.
pwc: Aug 16 16:11:12 This could be due to byte ordering problems - see the comments in Sources/conf.h
pwc: Aug 16 16:11:12 If there is another reason for this, edit the source to remove this assertion.
pwc: Aug 16 16:11:12 Terminating...
-->8-->8--
[Mod: I've heard reports of this same problem from others, though I've
not looked into its source myself yet. --Jeff.]
I tried changing various #defines in Sources/conf.h but to no effect.
Can someone tell me how to get the software to run correctly? I'm not
a c programmer so I'm not sure how to proceed.
I tried several copies of the sources - the cannonical source, and the
tar.gz's on both sunsite and tsx-11 but no joy :(.
- Rob.
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