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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!c4west.eds.com!evans
  3. From: evans@c4west.eds.com (Bill Evans)
  4. Subject: SUMMARY: Help with Crack
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec17.180150.10585@c4west.eds.com>
  6. Keywords: crack password
  7. Sender: news@c4west.eds.com
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: fantasy
  9. Organization: EDS C4 West
  10. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:01:50 GMT
  11. Lines: 26
  12.  
  13. Thanks for all the quick responses - nice list!
  14.  
  15. Turns out I needed to clean up after an abnormal
  16. exit.  
  17. Run "Scripts/spotless" once, and answer "NO" to the 
  18. second question
  19.  
  20. Original posting:
  21. >We are running Alec Muffetts crack program to improve security
  22. >on our local net.  The initial run of the program went smoothly
  23. >and ran through 1/3 of the password file before exiting.  Now,
  24. >I cannot get it to run and get the following error in the "out"
  25. >file:
  26. >
  27. >ran with:  ./Crack <name of password file) (the file exists and is
  28. >                                            world readable)
  29. >
  30. >pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 Loading Data, host=hostname
  31. >pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 No input supplied: everything removed by feedback ?
  32. >pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 Nothing to Crack. Exiting...
  33.  
  34. Help from and thanks to (in no particular order):
  35. <steve@ecf.toronto.edu>Steve Kotsopoulo
  36. <elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU>Karl Barrus
  37. <Alec.Muffett@sunehq.UK.Sun.CO>Alec Muffett
  38. and more that I deleted their mail address...
  39.