documentation gives incorrect paths for some files (john.pot, restore, etc.)

[David Paleino]

tags 360591 confirmed pending
thanks

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:10:59 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:

> The john manpage says:
> 
> 	"Once John finds a password, it will be printed to
> 	the terminal and saved into a file called
> 	~/john.pot."
> 
> and
> 
> 	"While cracking, you can press any key for status,
> 	or Ctrl+C to abort  the  session,  saving  point
> 	information  to  a  file  ( ~/restore by default)."
> 
> However, a trial run of john demonstrates  that  it  creates
> ./john.pot and ./restore (i.e. CWD not $HOME).

This was true some versions ago.
I don't know when, I don't know how, it has been fixed in the meanwhile, and
1.7.2-3 (currently in testing/unstable, going for lenny release) doesn't
present this bug anymore. Now it saves everything under ~/.john/.

I've updated the manpage, it will be present in 1.7.2-4, which will be released
somewhen after the Lenny release.

Kindly,
David

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