John the Ripper

…pisses me off. can anyone give me a person to person tutorial. Ive been to at least 3 typed and watched tons of videos and if i dont get it soon ill die of pissedoffidness. :angry::angry::angry:

Open from CMD.

ive got that. i have resaved everything that the tuts say to save it as. like wordlists, etc. and it still hasnt worked -_-

I can't offer the help the tutorials and manual(s) give you. Sorry.

Not once in this thread did you say what you were attempting to do. Try again.

well i wanted to just learn how to just start it. after that i can just play with it and learn how to use it myself. i know that i have to use a cmd prompt. but i need the know where and what to save the specific files. and then i need to know how to run those files. ]..;

Question, What are you trying to accomplish by learning how to use John? Do you know what its used for?

Texas Instruments wrote: well i wanted to just learn how to just start it. after that i can just play with it and learn how to use it myself. i know that i have to use a cmd prompt. but i need the know where and what to save the specific files. and then i need to know how to run those files. ]..;

open cmd

find where you have jtr

cd to the run file (for me its "D:/docs and setings/dylan/desktop/jtr/john1701/run/)

type john(it may be john-mmx or something along those lines)

http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=455

go there, its all you need to understand it

This is the command prompt……….

iBlaze:\john1701\run\john-386.exe"
John the Ripper password cracker, version 1.7.0.1
Copyright (c) 1996-2006 by Solar Designer
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john/

Usage: john-386 [OPTIONS] [PASSWORD-FILES]
--single                   "single crack" mode
--wordlist=FILE --stdin    wordlist mode, read words from FILE or stdin
--rules                    enable word mangling rules for wordlist mode
--incremental[=MODE]       "incremental" mode [using section MODE]
--external=MODE            external mode or word filter
--stdout[=LENGTH]          just output candidate passwords [cut at LENGTH]
--restore[=NAME]           restore an interrupted session [called NAME]
--session=NAME             give a new session the NAME
--status[=NAME]            print status of a session [called NAME]
--make-charset=FILE        make a charset, FILE will be overwritten
--show                     show cracked passwords
--test                     perform a benchmark
--users=[-]LOGIN|UID[,..]  [do not] load this (these) user(s) only
--groups=[-]GID[,..]       load users [not] of this (these) group(s) only
--shells=[-]SHELL[,..]     load users with[out] this (these) shell(s) only
--salts=[-]COUNT           load salts with[out] at least COUNT passwords only
--format=NAME              force ciphertext format NAME: DES/BSDI/MD5/BF/AFS/LM
--save-memory=LEVEL        enable memory saving, at LEVEL 1..3```

EDIT:It is pretty self explanatory.....

Texas Instruments wrote: well i wanted to just learn how to just start it. after that i can just play with it and learn how to use it myself. i know that i have to use a cmd prompt. but i need the know where and what to save the specific files. and then i need to know how to run those files. ]..; shaqywacky wrote:

1. open cmd
2. cd to the run directory (jtr/john1701/run/)
3. type john(it may be john-mmx or something along those lines)

http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=455

That's basically it. Pay attention to where you're downloading it; if you're using Firefox, you're most likely downloading to your Desktop folder. With most commands at the command line, you can use -?, /?, -h, or –help to see the arguments you can pass to the command. Explore.

Man, if u don't know how to use a command prompt, probably u can't use jtr!

Cyph3rHell wrote: Man, if u don't know how to use a command prompt, probably u can't use jtr!

You posted just to say that? Really helpful.

fuser wrote: [quote]Cyph3rHell wrote: Man, if u don't know how to use a command prompt, probably u can't use jtr!

You posted just to say that? Really helpful.[/quote]

Your post was just as useless…. :whoa:

skathgh420 wrote: [quote]fuser wrote: [quote]Cyph3rHell wrote: Man, if u don't know how to use a command prompt, probably u can't use jtr!

You posted just to say that? Really helpful.[/quote]

Your post was just as useless…. :whoa:[/quote]

Hah. Now with you included, that makes three worthless posts. Using JTR in the command prompt is really simple, and besides, since all the others have already posted, so I thought TI doesn't need another post telling him how he should run JTR, and with Cyph3r saying that, I just felt I had to comment on his post.