Bug 116706 – version bump app-crypt/johntheripper-1.6.40

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Gaber 2005-12-25 08:21:14 UTC]

please give us a working ebuild for this (using a old version, updating the version-number leaves us with 

keksdose-mobile ~ # john
fopen: john.ini: No such file or directory

thanks

[Comment 1 Michael Gaber 2005-12-25 13:59:07 UTC]

so some research provided this:

the binary which is put in /usr/sbin/john currently needs the john.conf in the same directory it is, but only if it is called with his absolute path.

if you just start it typing "john" it will search for "john.conf" and if it doesn't find this file it will search for "john.ini".

if you start it with "/usr/sbin/john" it will look for "/usr/sbin/john.conf" and/or "/usr/sbin/john.ini".

if we could get it somehow to look for it's files in "/etc/john" we would have john 1.6.40 running.

(i attach my actual ebuild, which is a just a bit modified 1.6.38)

[Comment 2 Michael Gaber 2005-12-25 14:00:29 UTC]

Created attachment 75519 [details]
partly working ebuild

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2006-01-06 19:31:32 UTC]

Thanks for the partial Michael 

I''m working on incorportating http://www.banquise.net/misc/patch-john.html and getting the /etc/ .. config files.

[Comment 4 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2006-01-07 03:30:40 UTC]

I've added 1.6.40 which is currently masked for testing and to fix a TEXTREL associated with it.

Can you please test it by adding =app-crypt/johntheripper-1.6.40 to
/etc/portage/package.mask and emerge it.

In particular please test john is using the paths correctly for config and all
other files it uses.

Thanks.

[Comment 5 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2006-01-07 04:58:09 UTC]

file is /etc/portage/package.unmask - sorry.