John the ripper is undoubtedly one of the best password cracking tool. People have been experiencing some problems with installing it. So here we bring out a tutorial on how to install the famous password cracker on a Linux machine.
This is the method to install and use john the ripper in fedora/ubuntu (and many other linux as well)..
1) Download john the ripper software
http://www.ziddu.com/download/6365223/jo...ar.gz.html
2) Extract it and then copy the text from
http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2009/09/02/3
3) Save the copy text in john folder with john.patch.
4) Open terminal and go to john folder
cd Desktop/john-1.7.3.1
5) Now we have to patch our john software with following command
patch -Np1 -i john.patch
6) go to src folder
cd src
7) run this command
make linux-x86-sse2
8) cd .. and goto run folder cd run.
9) Run this commmand
./unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > filename
10) Finally run this command to crack password
./john filename
and here you have the ripper running.
This is the method to install and use john the ripper in fedora/ubuntu (and many other linux as well)..
1) Download john the ripper software
http://www.ziddu.com/download/6365223/jo...ar.gz.html
2) Extract it and then copy the text from
http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2009/09/02/3
3) Save the copy text in john folder with john.patch.
4) Open terminal and go to john folder
cd Desktop/john-1.7.3.1
5) Now we have to patch our john software with following command
patch -Np1 -i john.patch
6) go to src folder
cd src
7) run this command
make linux-x86-sse2
8) cd .. and goto run folder cd run.
9) Run this commmand
./unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > filename
10) Finally run this command to crack password
./john filename
and here you have the ripper running.
