Brian Stults wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:Hi All ! The John package (password cracker) write the file `john.pot' in the root directory '/'. I do not like that: how can we ask to John to write this file somewhere else ?John writes the list of cracked passwords in ~/ which would be /root if run by the superuser.
I guess that I have a basic Woody box: so why `john.pot' is in '/' but not in '/root' ?
This should be a very secure directory, so it's probably as good a place as any.
Yes, indeed.
-Brian