Re: [libreoffice-users] Ping Andrew Douglas Pitonyak - password macro

On 08/08/2011 06:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> In attempting to help Bob Stia in the 'password problem' thread, I came
> across this macro:
>
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooomacros/files/PasswordCracker/Version%201.0/>

Interesting. I am familiar with the author. He has provided much advice 
to the community.

> This works *if* you have the *exact* password in the password file.
> Unfortunately it doesn't take regex etc., so it's only useful if the
> exact password is in the dictionary/password file. Is there any way to
> modify the macro so that it will try variations?

yes

> Example:
>
> Password is 'test'.
> - try 't' and combinations of 't' for length 4.
>
> similar to pdfcrack.
Would probably require some work to write it as  you desire. For a one 
shot deal, however, it might be just as easy to simply generate a text 
file created in a spreadsheet.

Otherwise, you would want to remove the file I/O related commands such as:

Opening the file:
    iFile = FreeFile ()
    open sDicFile for input as iFile


** Rather than opening a file, you would initialize your test password 
with something.

Closing the file:
    close #iFile

Reading the file:
Line Input #iFile, sPass

**** Rather than reading the file, you simply need to automatically 
choose the next password based on the current password. At one time, I 
wrote a checker that would check based on some assumed characters. I 
posted the code on the OOo forum.


http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=23014

--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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