john-users - Re: Crack Windows from Linux John

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:23:30 -0400
From: "Nick Travis" <wormfishin@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Crack Windows from Linux John

> Is it possible to crack a password on a windows machine sitting on the
> same network segment as my Linux server?
>
>
John is not designed to be used this way, you would have to extract the hash
from the windows box and then run john against the extracted data.  I think
you would be better off using Ophcrack in your situation.  I have tested out
the live cd before and it worked great.

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

Nick