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SUMMARY: Help with Crack

#895
From: Bill Evans
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:01
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Thanks for all the quick responses - nice list!

Turns out I needed to clean up after an abnormal
exit.  
Run "Scripts/spotless" once, and answer "NO" to the 
second question

Original posting:
>We are running Alec Muffetts crack program to improve security
>on our local net.  The initial run of the program went smoothly
>and ran through 1/3 of the password file before exiting.  Now,
>I cannot get it to run and get the following error in the "out"
>file:
>
>ran with:  ./Crack <name of password file) (the file exists and is
>                                            world readable)
>
>pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 Loading Data, host=hostname
>pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 No input supplied: everything removed by feedback ?
>pwc: Dec 16 08:53:06 Nothing to Crack. Exiting...

Help from and thanks to (in no particular order):
<steve@ecf.toronto.edu>Steve Kotsopoulo
<elee9sf@Menudo.UH.EDU>Karl Barrus
<Alec.Muffett@sunehq.UK.Sun.CO>Alec Muffett
and more that I deleted their mail address...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!c4west.eds.com!evans
From: evans@c4west.eds.com (Bill Evans)
Subject: SUMMARY: Help with Crack
Message-ID: <1992Dec17.180150.10585@c4west.eds.com>
Keywords: crack password
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:01:50 GMT
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