On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The only way I can think of getting in is that it runs ssh by default,
>> and I need to do a dictionary attack. Can anyone tell me where to get
>> software that might do this?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Password_cracking_software might
> get you started.
>
> I used to use Crack many years ago as an external validator (before we

OK, I've been corrected offline :-) Crack is better suited to offline
cracking of a password file that you already have.
THC-Hydra is recommended instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(software)
http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/

-jim

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