Re: Cracking FTP password so that I can convince people not to use FTP, and to instead use SFTP? How do I crack the pwd?

["Chip Panarchy" <forumanarchy () gmail com>]

Well thanks for the replies guys.

The most helpful ones (apart from the ones explaining how the protocol
works and differences between that and SFTP etc.) were the ones that
suggested I use;

Brutus or Hydra. (oh, and Metasploit)

As my 'live-hack' will involve crack the FTP site remotely (completely
different network, thus making Wireshark less useful).

Hopefully I can get one of these programs to work.

Thanks, and please don't hesitate to continue to suggest

Panarchy

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Chip Panarchy <forumanarchy () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wondering if I could have some help in 'hacking'/'cracking' an FTP site.
>
> I know that FTP is a very old protocol... so I'm certain that there
> are many holes in it. Especially in one that hasn't been maintained
> for a few years.
>
> How do I crack the password on the FTP site so that I can use that to
> convince the owner of the site (a friend of mine) to switch to SFTP?
>
> I really want to know, because no matter how hard I argue with him,
> there still is no comparison to cold hard evidence. I've been trying
> to convince him for the last month, but he won't budge. Finally I got
> him to give me permission to attempt to hack his FTP site.
>
> So please tell me what method I can use to hack the FTP site.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chip Panarchy

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