On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
Yes I tried medusa (as it is packaged for ubuntu) but it either proceeds slowly, one password at a time, or when you parallelise it, it seems to kill the ftp server. I will try hydra too. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
