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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:42:49 +0400
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Aleksey's status report #14

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:15:14AM +0400, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> > On 08/06/2012 03:49 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> > > Aleksey, Frank -
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:23:21PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> > >> On 08/05/2012 09:22 PM, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> > >>> You could find settings in
> > >>> ~/.config/Openwall/Johnny, the GUI for John the Ripper.conf
> > >>> So to remove them use
> > >>> $ rm ~/.config/Openwall/Johnny,\ the\ GUI\ for\ John\ the\ Ripper.conf 
> > >>
> > >> Can you use a file name without spaces and special characters. e.g.,
> > >> just ~/.config/Openwall/Johnny.conf instead?
> > >> It may be just a matter of taste, but I find file names with spaces
> > >> annoying.
> > >> If you don't line Johnny.conf, then may be Johnny-GUI.conf?
> > > 
> > > How about making it simply ~/.john/johnny.conf (all-lowercase) or
> > > ~/.john/gui.conf (ditto)?  John the Ripper may already create ~/.john if
> > > it is installed system-wide, we can just reuse this directory if present
> > > or create it if not.
> > 
> > Apparently, Aleksey uses a generig function which should work for
> > Windows as well, putting the config file into a user specific .config
> > subdirectory. (This was suggested by Simon in a private mail, and I
> > think it is a reasonable choice.
> > 
> > Other subdirectories I currently have in ~./config are
> > autostart  dconf    evince   ibus      Openwall       Thunar
> > transmission    xfce4
> > banshee-1  Empathy  gedit    leafpad   orage          totem      yelp
> > brasero    enchant  goa-1.0  nautilus  session-state  tracker  vlc
> > 
> > In addition to these directories (with config files in most of these),
> > there's a file Trolltech.conf. Looks like that was created when I
> > shortly tested the latest johnny version.
> 
> I do expect Trolltech.conf to be written by johnny. It is not in code
      ^
I missed "not" here. It is not expected that Trolltech.conf is
written.

-- 
Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov

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