Password cracker - John the Ripper Installation

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John the Ripper password cracker can be used to harden your system by giving you a idea how hard it is to crack your password you have chosen.

Download a source code

Installation can begin by downloading a source code of John the Ripper password cracker. Once we know the link of a file we can use wget:

Extract source files

tar xvzf john-1.7.0.2.tar.gz

Compile a source file

Navigate to:

cd john-1.7.0.2/src

Then we need to rum make command which will return a list of available systems that John the Ripper password cracker can be compiled on.

make

Choose your appropriate architecture, and compile

make linux-x86-any

john the ripper binary

cd ../run/
ls
./john

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