Bug#485422: john: cannot use either --rules or --test options

[Alexander Peslyak]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:31:32PM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> --rules does "word mangling" on words passed from a wordlist.
> That is, if you have "pass", with --rules, john also tries:
> 
> Pass
> pAss
> paSs
> pasS
> ...
> PASS

Actually, that (by far) not what the default set of wordlist rules would
produce.  Here's what it really does:

amd!solar:~$ cat w 
pass
amd!solar:~$ john -w=w -ru -stdo
pass
Pass
passes
pass1
Pass1
passpass
ssap
1pass
PASS
pass2
pass!
pass3
pass7
pass9
pass5
pass4
pass8
pass6
pass0
pass.
pass?
PassPass
ssaP
Ssap
passssap
pasS
2pass
4pass
Pass2
Pass!
Pass3
Pass9
Pass5
Pass7
Pass4
Pass6
Pass8
Pass.
Pass?
Pass0
3pass
7pass
9pass
5pass
6pass
8pass
Passes
passed
passing
Passed
Passing
words: 51  time: 0:00:00:00 100%  w/s: 2550  current: Passing

Alexander