Cracking Hashes John The Ripper

[ZionHD]

This thread for people who want to know how to crack a hash, and what program to use. If you want to crack a hash I recommend using John The Ripper or Hashcat. I've only tried John, but I heard Hashcat is good. However this is for John The Ripper only.

To Install John The Ripper you have to go on your server or linux box and

type the following Command:

wget http://www.openwall.com/john/j/john-1.8.0-jumbo-1.tar.gz -O john.tar.gz

Then to extract the john.tar.gz file you want to
type the following Command:

tar xvf john.tar.gz

Then you want to list the files/directories in the current folder you are on

ls -la

Now you want to replace {$dir} to the john directory's name that has displayed in the terminal:

cd {$dir}

To finish installing you can type:

cd src
./configure && make

To test john you can type:

cd ../run
./john --test