[lug] cracking md5 passwords

[Hugh Brown]

On a slightly different note, does anyone know how to go about cracking md5
passwords.  As a security precaution on the network I administer, I'd like
to run something like Crack on the passwords to test for password strength.

I haven't looked extensively at Crack to see if it supports the md5
approach, so if I need to go RTM.  Let me know.  

Hugh

"D. Stimits"
> 
> "B. O'Fallon" wrote:
> > 
> > "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone here have an insight or opinion on whether it is a "good" or
> > > "bad" thing to enable md5 passwords?
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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> > The almost unaminous consensus among the security books that I have read is
> > that MD5 along with shadow passwords are good things to have because they
> > make passwords harder to crack.
> > 
> > B. O'Fallon
> > 
> 
> It wasn't hard to talk me into it. My test install of RH 7.1 is using
> it.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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