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John the Ripper Postgres SQL Password Cracker

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John the Ripper Postgres SQL Password Cracker

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module uses John the Ripper to attempt to crack Postgres password hashes, gathered by the postgres_hashdump module. It is slower than some of the other JtR modules because it has to do some wordlist manipulation to properly handle postgres' format.

Author(s)

  • theLightCosine <theLightCosine@metasploit.com>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/analyze/jtr_postgres_fast
msf auxiliary(jtr_postgres_fast) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(jtr_postgres_fast) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(jtr_postgres_fast) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(jtr_postgres_fast) > run 

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