RE: Password Cracking using Djohn

Nathaniel Hall wrote:
> I work for an organization that currently assigns passwords to all
> employees and we are moving over to user created passwords.  As part
> of the move, we are wanting to implement a system that will try to
> brute force the user passwords (raw-MD5) so that we can disable the
> account if it is easily cracked.    
>
> That said, I have used John the Ripper and love it's abilities.  I
>  would, however, like to distribute the workload over two or three
> systems.  The software I found to do this is Djohn which uses JtR as
> it's base.  I have found the system to be a bit under documented for
> me. Has anybody used it successfully?  If so, could somebody assist
> me in setting up and running the system?    

Check this out:  http://www.purehacking.com/chaos/

It sounds like it is exactly what you're looking for.

Another link to something else that sounds similar:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=262750


JMB

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