john-users - Re: john could not read fifo as a wordlist file, minor problem

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:32:34 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: john could not read fifo as a wordlist file, minor
 problem

On 2012-06-30 00:15, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> fifo (named pipe) could not be used as an argument for -w parameter.
> 
> $ mkfifo temp; echo asdf > temp & john -w=temp ...
> with latest jumbo gives an error:
> Error, dictionary file is too large for john to read (probably a 32 bit OS issue)

I take it this is with 1.7.9-jumbo-6 but I'm willing to bet it's exactly
the same with J5.

> (John 1.7.8 says:
> ftell: Illegal seek)

M'kay.. it's interesting it differs.

> It could at least say that it does not support fifos. Also it could
> read entire wordlist into memory or suppress ETA (allowing user to
> choose behavior with parameter).

I think it really *should* support fifos so we probably need to tweak
something. Thanks for the input!

magnum