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John the Ripper password cracker, version 1.7.0.1
Copyright (c) 1996-2006 by Solar Designer
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john/

Usage: john-386 [OPTIONS] [PASSWORD-FILES]
--single                   "single crack" mode
--wordlist=FILE --stdin    wordlist mode, read words from FILE or stdin
--rules                    enable word mangling rules for wordlist mode
--incremental[=MODE]       "incremental" mode [using section MODE]
--external=MODE            external mode or word filter
--stdout[=LENGTH]          just output candidate passwords [cut at LENGTH]
--restore[=NAME]           restore an interrupted session [called NAME]
--session=NAME             give a new session the NAME
--status[=NAME]            print status of a session [called NAME]
--make-charset=FILE        make a charset, FILE will be overwritten
--show                     show cracked passwords
--test                     perform a benchmark
--users=[-]LOGIN|UID[,..]  [do not] load this (these) user(s) only
--groups=[-]GID[,..]       load users [not] of this (these) group(s) only
--shells=[-]SHELL[,..]     load users with[out] this (these) shell(s) only
--salts=[-]COUNT           load salts with[out] at least COUNT passwords only
--format=NAME              force ciphertext format NAME: DES/BSDI/MD5/BF/AFS/LM
--save-memory=LEVEL        enable memory saving, at LEVEL 1..3

--incremental[=MODE]       "incremental" mode [using section MODE]

john.exe -i pass.txt

6. The most powerful cracking mode in John is called "incremental" (not a proper name, but kept for historical reasons). You can simply run:

   john --incremental mypasswd

or:

   john -i mypasswd

This will use the default "incremental" mode parameters, which are defined in the configuration file's section named either [Incremental:All] (for most hash types) or [Incremental:LanMan] (for Windows LM hashes). By default, the [Incremental:All] parameters are set to use the full printable US-ASCII character set (95 characters) and to try all possible password lengths from 0 to 8. [Incremental:LanMan] is similar, except that it takes advantage of LM hashes being case-insensitive and of their halves limited to 7 characters each.

Don't expect "incremental" mode sessions to terminate in a reasonable time (unless all the passwords are weak and get cracked), read MODES for an explanation of this.

In some cases it is faster to use some other pre-defined incremental mode parameters and only crack simpler passwords, from a limited character set. The following command will try 26 different characters only, passwords from "a" to "zzzzzzzz" (in an optimal order):

   john -i=alpha mypasswd

Of course, you can use most of the additional features demonstrated above for wordlist mode with "incremental" mode as well. For example, on a large-scale penetration test, you may have John crack only root (UID 0) accounts in a set of password files:

   john -i -u=0 *.pwd

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By default, the [Incremental:All] parameters are set to use the full printable US-ASCII character set (95 characters) and to try all possible password lengths from 0 to 8