decrypting htpasswd

[Steve Buehler]

At 02:36 AM 1/23/2005, Mulley, Nikhil wrote:

>Hi All,
>[Meant for Linux Hackers...Well I know all here belong to the same 
>community ;)]
>However , I have managed to get the htpasswd file of some other site..
>this htpasswd file has the fileds like..
>Username:Password
>(which I guess has some DES encryption and as the salt does not seem to be 
>start with $1$ which resembles hashing with MD5)
>So , Question is how can I ask my John(the Ripper) to start cracking this 
>file to give me the password...
>
>Any one any thoughts/ideas ?

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