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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 01:50:55 +0100
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: ./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=\? broken
In earlier versions, the following command would print a list of
supported subformats for --format=crypt to stderr:
$ ./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=not_supported > /dev/null
Subformat unkown to John. Currently supported: descrypt, md5crypt,
bcrypt, sha256crypt, sha512crypt
This command is used by john.bash_completion to support completion for
--subformat:
./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=\? 2>&1
This is now broken on linux-x86-native:
$ ./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=xy
xy not supported on this system
So, the list of supported (or, at least, potentially supported)
subformats is not printed anymore.
When the subformat name specified is shorter than 2 characters, the
error differs between linux-x86-native and linux-x86-64.
linux-x86-native:
$ ./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=\?
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
linux-x86-64:
$ ./john --test=0 --format=crypt --subformat=\?
Testing: crypt, generic crypt(3) ? [?/64]... FAILED (prepare)
I bisected this. The following commit made the functionality needed for
run/john.bash_completion disappear:
commit c5280095cc5828249780a545876ed92d689e5817
Author: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 21 12:42:39 2013 +0100
Generic crypt: Allow setting actual salt with --subformat, and create
test vectors on the fly.
Checking out d3a0d54868671bcca2c54eeccf813eb0777a521f I verified that
this version still worked as expected.
The segfault on linux-x86-native should definitely be fixed.
It would be nice to write the list of (potentially) supported subformats
to stderr again.
I could of course hard code the same list in my bash completion script.
But then, someone would need to adjust the bash completion script
everytime a new subformat (sunmd5 was the last one) gets added.
Furthermore, different versions of the bash completion script will be
needed for different john versions. (Currently I try to support all
previous core and jumbo versions with the most recent bash completion
script version.)
Frank
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