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crack


Information about the package, crack, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The crack package is designed for, Password cracker.


Package Name:

crack

Summary:

Password cracker

Description:

Crack is a password guessing program that is designed to quickly locate insecurities in Unix (or other) password files by scanning the contents of a password file, looking for users who have misguidedly chosen a weak login password. This package creates a group named "crack" and the Crack program puts all its results in the /var/lib/crack/run directory, which belongs to that group. Only users in the crack group can use this package.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

5.0a

Release:

14.el6

Size:

5.2 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

Artistic clarified



Handy Yum Commands for crack


Control the crack package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install crack

This command will install crack on the server.

yum remove crack

This command will un-install crack on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove crack, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove crack

This command will un-install crack on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove crack when using the -y flag.

yum update crack

This command will update crack to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove crack, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update crack

This command will update crack to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove crack when using the -y flag.

yum info crack

This command will show you core information about the crack package.

yum deplist crack

This command will show you the dependencies for crack. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update crack

This command will check if there is an update waiting on crack. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.