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

On 08/08/2011 07:01 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> 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

Thanks Andrew. I've no experience with macros, so it will be a good
learning experience.




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